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* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von Gary Comins an All am 17.09.96
GC> From: Gary Comins <gcomins -at- WORLD -dot- STD -dot- COM>
GC> If everyone is offended by someone else's quote containing a
GC> politically
GC> incorrect slang word, why are they all including it in their
GC> messages?
they simply caught the only thing they could hold on that smooth, unnatural
surface created by political correctness where everyone hides everything.
But let's return to business. A friend of mine worked in the US for a few
years. One of the most important things he missed there was this: A word is a
word and if some coworker says something he might even mean it. In the US he
often waded through molasses, hardly ever able to catch anything. A most
important qualification was to say nothing in as many words as possible. OK,
we
have such people, too. But I refuse to do business with them whenever
possible.
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