OT -- Re: random cover of a range

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:gndrqu$193p$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> I don't quite know what to say to that.   So you're saying you
>> wouldn't mind if someone stood behind you uttering profanities all day
>> long?  I would find that highly annoying and it would most certainly
>> contribute to my stress levels.  Even if it weren't profanities it
>> would be highly annoying.  So to say words can't harm you seems
>> nonsense to me.  Sure words do not cause physical injury, but are
>> physical injuries the only ones that matter?
>
> I'd be just as annoyed if you stood behind me reading the dictionary aloud 
> all day. It's not the words or ideas that annoy, it's the sound.

Incidentally, I actually had a co-worker once who did more-or-less just 
that. He wasn't following me around or anything, but it was a small war-room 
setup and he was always yapping away with someone, and every other word out 
of his mouth was some variant of "fuck", regardless of whether or not it 
actually fit the content of the sentence. Irritating as hell, but it would 
have been just as bad if it were either a "surfer-dude"-style overuse of 
"like" or even just constant whistling or pencil-tapping...Or noise-making 
yo-yos...Those damn, insufferable, company-issued logo-bearing noise-making 
yo-yos...with the blinky red lights and everything...talk about "bells and 
whistles"...Man, I hated those things...(And yes, that seriously happened, 
at the same job. And it was a room of *programmers*.)