@aps1080 wrote:
Thats the thing.
You can have a normal conversation and stick to most peoples rules, but someone can all of a sudden takes offence to one word you use.
How are you to know ?
Aye...there's the rub! How DO you accomodate everyone's sensibilities?
Given that every person on this planet that is, has been and ever will be, interprets the same information in differing ways, means that there's always going to be someone who doesn't play by society's standard rules - and takes offfense.
As a classic example, there's over 30,000 christian sects in the USA alone - each and every one just as fervent as the next, that their interpretation of the bible is the one true reading, and all others are false!
So given that just this one book can cause such enormous controversies, our words and their meanings can be open to a vast array of differing standpoints.
As far as I'm concerned, I'll try to stay within reasonable societal boundaries when I talk or write, and if someone takes offense to something, then they are free to discuss their interpretation with me - or man up and wear it!
