should "self" be changed?

[zipher]

On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 8:00:49 AM UTC-5, Todd wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:40 PM, zipher <dreamin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 6:30:16 AM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.... at pearwood.info> writes:
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> > > On Wednesday 27 May 2015 14:39, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > > > That kind of homophobic slur is inappropriate from anyone in this
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> > > > community. Kindly cut it out altogether.
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> > > I look forward to the day when people would read the earlier insult
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> > > and be perplexed as to why it is a slur at all. In the same way as
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> > > "your mother wears army boots" has become a joke slur, not taken
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> > > seriously.
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> > Yes, let's all work toward an end to the use of gender, sexuality,
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> > ethnicity, and other inborn traits as the punchline of insults or jokes.
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> Oh God, you people are being idiots.  It's poop. And shall we all so look forward to the day, when people who eat poop are also welcome into the circle of humanity?
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> If your goal is to get people to stop calling you a troll, you are going about it the wrong way.  If it isn't, why are you even here?  Please remember the first rule of holes: if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Dude, I stopped digging into "holes" a long time ago, but then that was the issue wasn't it?  And since my goal isn't that, let's go back to discussing the ins and outs (ahem) of creating a more complete lexical specification of the language, which would provide many other worthy side benefits, besides saving on typing characters.

Mark