[Wikipedia-l] Name-calling and hair-pulling

Mon Nov 11 01:24:16 UTC 2002

Tom Parmenter wrote:

>Toby Bartels wrote:

>>Ed Poor wrote:

>>>Why are you so cantankerous? You, you -- you CURMUDGEON!

>>Comparing our personalities:
>>Is Ed calling somebody "curmudgeon"
>>equivalent to me calling somebody "asshole"?
>>Remember, it's all relative to what we normally say.
>>^_^

>No, it's relative to civility and incivility; "darn" is not as
>offensive as "damn" no matter who says it.

That's not what I was referring to.
I meant the equivalent in terms of the speaker's internal thoughts.

-- Toby