Yes, Bob, but rightness is not only about erm, rightness. Elegance or beauty
has to come into it as well. And if it looks cr*p it must be cr*p :-)
Chris
Yes, all right, "rightness" looks rubbish as well . . .
On 6 Feb 2013, at 19:59, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Now you know it's not _that_ wrong. I mean, language is about clarity, right?
> And if I read a post by someone that contains egregious violations of the
> Language Code, and I tell them they are in like for a good Barkering, how
> much more clearly could I put it? Same with our beloved Mr. Fides. If I were
> to say, "Man, you're going to get properly Andrewed for that tangent!" Well,
> you'd know exactly what I meant. F'er heaven's sake, you Brits are the ones
> that turned a proper noun, and a very good man's name, into a euphemism for
> coitus. Roger that! Really? <wink>
>
> --Scofflaw Bob
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