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Rick Williams is currently offline  Rick Williams   United States
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I'll come right to the point. I find some of the language used here offensive. I really do not see how it helps any discussion. The use of vulgarity is a lack of vocabulary skills and/or a lack of social skills. There are many people here that are highly offended by such language. It does nothing to bolster the discussion, it only diminishes the author's contribution. Keep it clean and keep it intelligent.

Respectfully
Rick

Rick Williams
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Re: [GMCnet] The language used here [message #286149 is a reply to message #286147] Sun, 30 August 2015 08:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mr ERFisher is currently offline  Mr ERFisher   United States
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especially when it comes from a NON-GMC owner

who has no interest in the future of gmcs and their supporters.

i vote to clean it up

erf

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Rick Williams wrote:

> I'll come right to the point. I find some of the language used here
> offensive. I really do not see how it helps any discussion. The use of
> vulgarity
> is a lack of vocabulary skills and/or a lack of social skills. There are
> many people here that are highly offended by such language. It does nothing
> to bolster the discussion, it only diminishes the author's contribution.
> Keep it clean and keep it intelligent.
>
> Respectfully
> Rick
> --
> Rick Williams
> Bliss, Michigan
> 1978 Eleganza II
>
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Re: [GMCnet] The language used here [message #286156 is a reply to message #286147] Sun, 30 August 2015 09:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
bdub is currently offline  bdub   United States
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These are currently being dealt with.
The moderators are equally offended by both recent instances.

Billy Massey
On Aug 30, 2015 8:14 AM, "Rick Williams" wrote:

> I'll come right to the point. I find some of the language used here
> offensive. I really do not see how it helps any discussion. The use of
> vulgarity
> is a lack of vocabulary skills and/or a lack of social skills. There are
> many people here that are highly offended by such language. It does nothing
> to bolster the discussion, it only diminishes the author's contribution.
> Keep it clean and keep it intelligent.
>
> Respectfully
> Rick
> --
> Rick Williams
> Bliss, Michigan
> 1978 Eleganza II
>
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Re: [GMCnet] The language used here [message #286190 is a reply to message #286156] Sun, 30 August 2015 17:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jim Galbavy is currently offline  Jim Galbavy   
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I guess I missed the fireworks. Was off scuba diving in South Florida
over the last couple days. So I guess I can say it wasn't me. Wink I'll
have to wait until tomorrow to see how ANNIE weathered the storm.

jim galbavy
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Re: The language used here [message #286192 is a reply to message #286147] Sun, 30 August 2015 18:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chr$ is currently offline  Chr$   United States
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Gene, you don't know that I don't plan on owning a GMC again.

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Scottsdale, AZ

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Re: The language used here [message #286203 is a reply to message #286147] Sun, 30 August 2015 20:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jhbridges is currently offline  jhbridges   United States
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I missed the fun here, cos I was at a show in Lexington watching the verbal fun there. I suggest that whatever one hears is sort of like a shot of whiskey - it only affects you if you accept it. After all, one man's sacrelige is another's canon.

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Re: The language used here [message #286205 is a reply to message #286147] Sun, 30 August 2015 21:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jp Benson is currently offline  Jp Benson   United States
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Rick Williams wrote on Sun, 30 August 2015 08:13
I'll come right to the point. I find some of the language used here offensive. I really do not see how it helps any discussion. The use of vulgarity is a lack of vocabulary skills and/or a lack of social skills. There are many people here that are highly offended by such language. It does nothing to bolster the discussion, it only diminishes the author's contribution. Keep it clean and keep it intelligent.

Respectfully
Rick


It's good that you live in Bliss.

I agree that socially incorrect language has no real utility on the forum. But don't personally give a stink about it since it's not worth fretting over. As a matter of curiosity I scraped the archives and found over 700 instances of such language. I decline to publish the list. A few of those epithets were even directed personally at other members. It looks like some members in good standing might require social rehabilitation.

Maybe the archives should be redacted for the sake of posterity.

JP

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Re: The language used here [message #286266 is a reply to message #286205] Mon, 31 August 2015 16:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Justin Brady is currently offline  Justin Brady   United States
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I must have missed the fun, I'm not sure of the context but...

I'm fairly certain this forum's members are all adults.
If you don't like a word, don't say it in your head when you read it.
Do you change the channel when you hear a curse word on TV?

Justin Brady http://www.thegmcrv.com/ 1976 Palm Beach 455

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Re: [GMCnet] The language used here [message #286269 is a reply to message #286266] Mon, 31 August 2015 17:17 Go to previous message
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Somebody (I didn't note who) who was extremely peed off at some thing or treatment used the f-bomb a few times in his very irate dissertation about his situation. Yeah, it was a bit extreme, but I figured I'd be highly angered if I had experienced what he was describing.

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> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:53:35 -0600
> To: gmclist@list.gmcnet.org
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> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] The language used here
>
> I must have missed the fun, I'm not sure of the context but...
>
> I'm fairly certain this forum's members are all adults.
> If you don't like a word, don't say it in your head when you read it.
> Do you change the channel when you hear a curse word on TV?
> --
> Justin Brady
> 1976 Palm Beach 455

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