Hello Björn!

01 Dec 14 02:18, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 BF>    Of course it's true in real life. If you don't even read or hear or
 BF> understand it, are you then offended? If I write something offensive in
 BF> Swedish, would you then be offended?

 The problem is you never know when you are offensive when languages differ.
 From my youth I remember that if in a "conversation" with sombody who dit
 not understand Dutch, the other felt offended even if I said nice things
 about bim. If however you would scold at him in his own language it was
 accepted.

 I would probably also feel offended if we met and you would say nice things
 about me in Swedish in a harsh tone.

 So the words don't really matter, it is the tone and the environment where
 it is said, that decides if words are offensive.

Kees

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