OT -- Re: random cover of a range

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Bill Baxter" <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.783.1234919397.22690.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>
> Unless of course you use those same words to express your dismay at
> today's lunch options.  Then you've robbed those words of any special
> emphasis they might have been able to provide.
>

Not necessarily. Just like the "normal everyday words that can be used 
maliciously", the difference is all in the delivery. I could say "Oh, fuck, 
broccoli again" in a way that suggests "I despise you, let's fight!" (loud, 
gruff and annunciated with a sneer or a big frown and glaring at the chef or 
server), or I could say it in a perfectly benign manner (subdued, prepended 
with a chuckle or soft laugh-like snort or a "heh", and glancing over to, 
nudging, and smiling at a tired-of-broccoli friend standing nearby). That 
latter still leaves plenty of room for "fuck" to be used coarsely, in just 
the same way that "Did you see that thing on TV last night?" leaves plenty 
of room for "that" to be used coarsely (as in my earlier example of telling 
an insecure acne-victim "I'm surprised you're willing to come out looking 
like THAT!")