Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.centerline.com!uunet!olivea!sgigate!sgiblab!adagio.panasonic.com!nntp-server.caltech.edu!keith From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.atheism Subject: Re: >>>>>>Pompous ass Message-ID: <1pi9jkINNqe2@gap.caltech.edu> Date: 2 Apr 93 21:01:40 GMT References: <1ou4koINNe67@gap.caltech.edu> <1p72bkINNjt7@gap.caltech.edu> <93089.050046MVS104@psuvm.psu.edu> <1pa6ntINNs5d@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Mar30.205919.26390@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1pcnp3INNpom@gap.caltech.edu> <1pdjip$jsi@fido.asd.sgi.com> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes: >>>How long does it [the motto] have to stay around before it becomes the >>>default? ... Where's the cutoff point? >>I don't know where the exact cutoff is, but it is at least after a few >>years, and surely after 40 years. >Why does the notion of default not take into account changes >in population makeup? Specifically, which changes are you talking about? Are you arguing that the motto is interpreted as offensive by a larger portion of the population now than 40 years ago? keith
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