If you want X, you know where to find it (was Re: do...until wisdom needed...)

[Steve Lamb]

On 19 Apr 2001 17:58:40 -0400, Douglas Alan <nessus at mit.edu> wrote:
>My dictionaries disagree with your dictionary.  My Webster says that
>abuse "stresses harshness and unfairness of verbal attack".  It is the
>*attack* that must be "harsh" for words to be "abusive" -- the words
>themselves do not need to be harsh.

    Well, gee, Alex hasn't been harsh in my book.  I mean, you're the one who
made the comment, and I'm paraphrasing here....  $#%$ you!  You know, fsck you
in unix terms.  I think that given the two labels and the two people in the
thread you're the abusive one. 


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