Wed, 29 Mar 2006

Who gives a @#$% about profanity?

I can curse like a sailor - in private situations. But I really do try to avoid using "inappropriate" language in public, and my darling wife will call me on the carpet if I get too out of control.

Curiously enough (or perhaps not) the swear words I try hardest to avoid are "God" and "Jesus Christ", finding it particularly hypocritical on my part to swear by deities that I don't acknowledge. Those are the major words of public cursing I hear others doing - not "fuck", "shit" or even "Hell", but a god's name! And a god the curser presumably honors! Go figure ... this isn't the "Age of Profanity", it's the Age of Stupidity.

You probably hear these words often, and more than ever before. But even though we can't print them, we can certainly ask: Are we living in an Age of Profanity?

(link) [CNN.com]

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