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   From: pax@osmium.mv.net   
      
   Helen Hall  wrote:   
   >On 24 Sep, 23:38, J.J. O'Shea  wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:23:01 -0400, Patrick Baldwin wrote   
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   >> > Elaine Thompson  wrote:   
   >> >> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:40:31 +0100,   
   >> >> green_kni...@greenknight.org.uk.invalid (Catja Pafort) wrote:   
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   >> >>> Brian M. Scott wrote:   
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   >Yes, well you're all bloody Americans. Of course it isn't obvious to   
   >you how offensive it is to others from elsewhere in the world. And   
   >every time you post a message like this, you're saying, "And I don't   
   >care what it means elsewhere because your views are of no account."   
      
   >Just try imagining if the situation were reversed? What if a word that   
   >had become more or less innocuous in the UK and similar versions of   
   >English was still deeply offensive in the US? Would you be so happy   
   >then to accept that, "Oh, it's OK, it doesn't mean that here"?   
      
   	It's an international forum.  Standards and usage vary, and   
   	I understand this.  Also, I don't see that people have a right   
   	to not be offended.  And for what it's worth, good luck   
   	finding a word that I'll take offense at after all these   
   	years on Usenet.   
      
   ~P.   
      
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