Fwd: Swearing

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From:	strick9r@cadvantage.com (Glen Strickland)
To:	DawnDR@aol.com
Date: 96-07-12 19:55:53 EDT

Dawn, in all seriousness, a list from which to take the answer to your
question (and I realize that you are using gentle satire in your approach)
is the George Carlin routine entitled..."The 7 words that can't be said on
television."

Glen Strickland

At 07:05 PM 7/12/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Is there a list of what constitutes a "swear word" --- or does it remain in
>the mind of the individual judge, or "critic," as Mr. Rogers indicates might
>be the case?
>
>Is a good and vehement "DARN!!" acceptable??  And, is a mumbled or murmured
>"damn" out of bounds?  If the judges, etc., are to play censors in this
>matter, should they not also specify decibels of expressed emotion --- since
>tone and volume are just as important in this issue as the actual four, five
>or more letter words.  I have to admit that I have the ability to turn a
>perfectly acceptable term into an "obscenity" just by adding the appropriate
>tonal twist.  How do rate that???
>

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