There is hope for this world yet

[fpb]

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".

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Er... thank you. (*very moved&)

[avus.livejournal.com]

You're most welcome...
...and worth it.

Sorry if I get a bit personal -- occupational hazard, I guess, though I confess for me, it's more than occupational. My clients have taught me well.

I seem to produce a lot of "Er...'s".