Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 00:12:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net> To: ML Duke <mlduke@concentric.net> Cc: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 & SGML/DocBook - Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990709000821.2932M-100000@geeky1.ebtech.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9907081829560.15667-100000@concentric.net>
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On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, ML Duke wrote: > > I have no clue. But don't say "bloody" in English company :) > It depends on the company, some consider it a swear word, some don't. I know one fellow who was a machinist in england ever since he was nine(he's in his sixties now), and he uses bloody and flipping occasionally(more frequently when he's annoyed:), and I'm certain that he would not use those phrases if he considered them swear words. Still, to be careful, I do refrain from using them when other people are around. I find it is very important to have a good vocabulary, and avoid swear words whenever possible(english has over 600,000 words - it shouldn't be that hard to use some different ones). That way not only do you rarely offend people by accident, you also put forth an air of being well educated, intelligent and responsible. TTYL! --- Paul Anderson - Self-employed Megalomaniac paul@geeky1.ebtech.net Member of the Sarnia Linux User's Group http://www.sar-net.com/slug http://zephyr.sellad.on.ca/~paul "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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