Why cant players control their language.....

[bkbjones]

Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA

Okay, I'll try this again. Who says using that word is immoral?

Seriously? Just where along the line did someone determine that this word was inappropriate in public? There are enough educated seniors on the board, that I expect an intelligent answer to this question.

Since Dave has chosen to take this to the extreme, I wonder what he was reading as it certainly wasn't any of the posts in this thread.

No one stated it should be ignored. No one said baldgriff was wrong in handling it the way he did. No one has suggested anything other than the manner in which it is handled. Can you disagree with differing opinions? Sure. Can you condemn others just because their beliefs don't fall in line with yours? You can, but that is your option, nothing more than others would expect from you in a free country.

I doubt any of the seniors on the board would be able to answer based solely upon recollection. If so, they would have to be about 300 years old.

If you ever have the chance to work with me and so desire, I'll rip off some Middle English for you. My remembrance of college classes gone way by tell me the "f" word goes back that far, to the 1100s or 1200s (like many of our other words) in pretty much its present sense. Apparently it was not considered to be a vulgarity until around the 1700s, but was never used to any large extent until more modern times. (As an aside, if it were to have been considered a vulgarity, and/or a word used a great deal, Chaucer probably would have used it in the Tales. He DID use the "c" word, among others. Here's another thought: if someone used the "c" word on the field, would we toss them even more quickly than the various ways in which the "f" word can be used?)

BTW, I'm not exactly the morality police, but there are no "f" bombs ever in a youth game I work (well, not more than one). In adult ball, I'm pretty lenient...