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".

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, let's be fair. If they were not regularly there, ready to spend Mummy's pocket money on those games, perhaps the internet cafe might have to close, and we would be thrown upon the mercies of the Lewisham library internet system (*shudder*)!

[mincot.livejournal.com]

Good Heavens, what a fate.

I see no problem with gaming--unless they also do not read. Alas, few read as well as game :(

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I imagine that the boy who said "Dunce" does. It is not terminology you meet on your average rap record.