In a message dated 5/12/02 6:00:25 AM Mountain Daylight Time, ginlu@charter.net writes: > My grandma always told me that 'bad' language was "an indication of one's > dire lack of vocabulary"..... > I suppose she made a point with me, as I have always been able to tell a > person off without ever using a single "blue" word. > Doris I agree entirely. English is supposed to be one of the most complicated languages, so many words with multiple definitions. There are to many good words to have to resort to questionable or "bad" words. Then there are words for which the definition is constantly changing. "Gay" being one of them. This happens to be my cousin's name and it really irritates me that only the negative definition is the acceptable one. In fact it irritates me so much that at times I have told the person who questions me about it to learn to use a dictionary, and read it. Aleta, IBSSG, Charter Member Bo-Peep Award Ogden, Utah, USA "God sent his Singers upon the Earth, With songs of Gladness and Mirth. That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them to Heaven again." --Longfellow