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To: jlallen who wrote (9474)10/26/1999 11:41:00 AM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 32873
 
Even then, of course, we would get into matters of interpretation -- as do the courts. Was the "lie" deliberate, for example, or the result of misapprehension? etc., etc., etc. Or take obscenity. I personally see all the difference in the world between saying: "What a s****y day!" and "You are a piece of s***." But some people flip out seeing the word in any context.