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  8. Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:43:00 EST
  9. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
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  11. Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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  14. Greetings,
  15.  
  16. In fact, the use of holy names as "swear" words in the original sense is
  17. proscribed in many traditions--suggesting that the practice is one that some
  18. societies have striven to control, and thus that it is a practice that exists.
  19. Bear in mind that in Jewish tradition it was forbidden to utter the
  20. name of god.
  21.  
  22. Marty
  23.