http://walt.lishost.org/2005/09/how-genteel-can-you-be/ The library voice of the radical middle. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://walt.lishost.org/2005/09/how-genteel-can-you-be/comment-page-1/#comment-406 walt Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:43:03 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=132#comment-406 A list member who must have little experience dealing with dogs and dog breeders, where that terribly offensive second syllable comes up quite a lot… But then, Will Manley’s decided that “sucks” is borderline obscenity (see my comment [in Quicker Takes]) in the august pages of American Libraries (the May issue of those august pages), so who knows? Or maybe “book” is obscene and offensive!

]]> http://walt.lishost.org/2005/09/how-genteel-can-you-be/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Connie Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:09:43 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=132#comment-400 Neither does bookbitch, but someone that uses that name on a list that I’m on was recently trashed by a list member who claimed it was obscene and offensive. Huh?

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