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There are many people who see the usage of a broader vocabulary as an enrichment not a poverty of expression.

Funny you use the word "sonny"to a stranger of whom you know nothing ( age , occupation etc.) about 20 years or more ago that would have been seen as very rude, now for a 46 year old I take it as a compliment :-)

Greets Jan

Considering the number of words already in the english language (circa

Regards, Greg.P.

Interesting that my comment about the use of the word "pimp" stirred up such a controversy. By the way, I'm not offended, just dismayed that American English is becoming so ugly. I'm reminded of the famous TV event (was it Saturday Night Live?) years ago when somebody stood up in front of the camera and said "penis" a couple of hundred times. No big deal, and rather funny. It highlighted the abusrdity of censorship. So, if it suits anyone, "pimp" away.

My point in the "pimp" comment was that there's really no need to use a word, a noun in fact, as a verb for which the meaning is so contrived when there are perfectly good words which pander less to vulgar popular culture.

Let's see who can beat this poor dead horse the l> >

Want to know what I hate? Top posters, but I digress.

Do we all have to use the same words to describe something? What's the harm in using a euphemism? Think how boring conversation would be. I can't believe political correctness has gotten through to this group. Sometimes a slang word gets the point across better than a clean version. I mean, what would have more effect: "You male offspring of a female canine" or "you son-of-a-bitch"? Or even better: "Go ye forth and have Biblical knowledge of thine self" or "go f*** yourself"?

But then you realized what it meant to have a threaded news reader and that a reply could refer to the message easly available imediately up the tree, if it wasn't one you had just read and you needed any refreshment of your memory of it at all, and you decided that posting practices developed in the days of DOS based message readers were obsolete, eh?

Yeah, what a bunch, "their" "loosers" fer sure

Steve Caple spake thus:

Sorry, I disagree. Point taken about the provenance of the practice (which actually predated DOS, but no matter), but even with a threaded newsreader (what I use), it's still useful to have some context in the message window. Let the computer assist you instead of requiring your brain to retain all that info, dontcha know. I still think top-posting, previous-text snipping and all the rest are bad form, but of course, they're all becoming the norm, so like neologisms coming into the language (which you have as much ability to stop as an earthquake or a tsunami), get used to it.

But it is in the vernacular and so i use it...

Always glad to be of service...

Ahhh weedhopper - you have gained the true meaning of usenet...

NY or NJ? Interesting choice of railroads if you're from NJ...

Rich KB2AIH elapsed

NJ - Trenton to be exact. I have long childhood memories of riding the Central as a kid. And the CP Rail/D&H came about as catching my eye while driving up to ski areas in NY state and the New England area.