1. Re: Profane
- Posted by Peter Hartley <hartley at HARTLEY.ON.CA>
Jun 05, 1998
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Last edited Jun 06, 1998
How about we simply reserve profanity and childish outpourings for private
E-mail and reserve this list for its intended purpose.
Peter Hartley
-----Original Message-----
From: Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
To: EUPHORIA at cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu <EUPHORIA at
cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu>
Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: Profane
>At 04:25 PM 6/5/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>Irv wrote:
>>
>>>I subscribe to this list to discuss *programming* languages.
>>>I respectfully suggest to anyone who has problems with
>>>Ralf's English: please continue the discussion in Dutch.
>>>I'll get it translated - that should be good for a few
>>>laughs.
>>
>>Great! I couldn't find the "English to Dutch" option at AltaVista
>translation page. Maybe you'll have more success translating sarcasm.
>>
>>David "arrogant facist" Cuny
>
>>From News of the Weird:
>
>* In March, Rogers, Ark., software developer Rick Bray introduced
>his TVGuardian sound monitor, which silences offensive words in
>television dialogue and prints tamer substitutes as captions on the
>screen. Bray expanded George Carlin's "seven words you can't
>say" to about 100, and says his device can analyze surrounding
>dialogue so that, for example, "God" will be muted only when used
>irreverently. (An earlier version of the software captioned "Dick
>Van Dyke" as "jerk Van gay.")
>
>Maybe we need this software?
>
>Irv
>
