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Subject:Re: Language usage From:"Peter T. Sabin" <peterts -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 20 Apr 1994 14:10:21 EDT
Val, I read the same response that you did and didn't at all get the
impression the respondent was saying 'begin using foul language'.
Words are for communicating. Communication is for the sharing of ideas and
feelings. Words in one setting are not necessarily wrong in another, but they
such as heck can be in-appropriate.
There is nothing inherently sad, happy or tense about a C# note on the piano.
Put it after a C and before a D and it conveys tenseness; put it after a B
and before an F and it conveys wholeness.
Differences in thoughts and feelings--and therefore differences in
vocabulary--are the warp and woof of human existence. In a perfect world, we
would all share the same vocabulary and be able to find the perfectly
appropriate word.
