There is hope for this world yet

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The internet cafe where I go in the long wait for a phone line of my very own has a regular clientele of teen-agers who spend hours playing videogames. I am used to hearing them discuss their strategies and results aloud and with occasionally salty language.

Of course this language is mostly of the modern street variety, anything from "gay" to "motherf..."

Except that just now, a very small black lad right near me has used the literate, Popeian insult "dunce".

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[mincot.livejournal.com]

That is funny! I have been known to play an online videogame--my sister and I live several states over from each other, and so we play "together" (having decided that the siblings who slay together stay together). In the population I have seen, there appears to be a genuine interest in more articulate language, at least among an intelligent minority. I have done my best to foster this attitude and model it (though "dunce" is not one I have used).