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In reply to the discussion: Skinner: We've got a whole new system lined up and ready to go... [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)term that can be interpreted to take a few years off me.
Seriously, it's just language. I don't use that kind of language generally, but it does not bother me in the least to read or hear it.
If someone used the same language in a foreign tongue, no one would be offended at all. It's the meaning we ascribe to language that makes it offensive.
Anyway. I'm a Berniebro, so I will probably be out of here when the Hillary crowd takes over.
So this doesn't concern me. But I thought I would say a word to the language censors among us. Learn a few foreign languages and then see how you feel about the linguistic prudery of English speakers.
As we used to say in grade school, "Sticks and stones may hurt my bones, but words never hurt me."
Most people like to dish it out but can't take it.