[ExI] Damien - Avoiding Coarseness in our Dialogs

[Jef Allbright]

On 5/4/07, Alex Ramonsky <alex at ramonsky.com> wrote:
>
> Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> >The slightly farcical aspect here is that Lee was the one who
> >introduced the foul epithet "----".  I was shocked, shocked I say.
> >
> It's a variety of Tourette's syndrome, in which sufferers suddenly emit
> streams of punctuation for no apparent reason. -One of the new
> textually-transmitted diseases, against which humor is the only known
> prophylactic.  :  )

It's described in the technical literature as punctuated disequilibrium.

- Jef