If you want X, you know where to find it (was Re: do...until wisdom needed...)
Steve Lamb
grey at despair.rpglink.com
Fri Apr 20 06:10:46 EDT 2001
On 19 Apr 2001 17:58:40 -0400, Douglas Alan <nessus at mit.edu> wrote:
>My dictionaries disagree with your dictionary. My Webster says that
>abuse "stresses harshness and unfairness of verbal attack". It is the
>*attack* that must be "harsh" for words to be "abusive" -- the words
>themselves do not need to be harsh.
Well, gee, Alex hasn't been harsh in my book. I mean, you're the one who
made the comment, and I'm paraphrasing here.... $#%$ you! You know, fsck you
in unix terms. I think that given the two labels and the two people in the
thread you're the abusive one.
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