Posted by KRICO on October 09, 2000 at 07:45:20:
In Reply to: A good example from Rock. posted by RickFeliz on October 09, 2000 at 04:29:13:
| We could follow the Japanese example and take politeness to the ironic extreme when feeling the urge to flame...Instead of the usual spew of second-person directed, toilet-oriented obscenities like "you turdpisser" we could use the third person and refer to our adversary as "the honorable offending gentleman"... The more polite and officious the vocabulary, the more subtle and ironic the insult... But then, really who wants to spend boardtime insulting people? Only a flamer at heart... KRICO
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