"Bill Baxter" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:52 PM, John Reimer <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello Derek, >> >>>> It's a very pervasive view that swearing is a non-issue these days, >>>> and a person is just being prudish and silly if he disaproves. >>>> >>> Hmmm ... you got some statistics to back that up? Most people I deal >>> with have limits (not all the same), so that seems to indicate to me >>> that some swearing behaviour is not acceptable to most people. >>> >> >> No, I don't. It was a general observation from my interactions within >> certain groups of people. So I would do best to withdraw that statement. > > George Carlin. Chris Rock. South Park. Never would have been > accepted in the Leave-it-to-Beaver era. >
Oh man, I would *hate* to be restricted to 50's era television shows like that. I'd feel like I was living in some crazy puritan-revival sect. I've felt for a while that the issue of profanity can be summed up as "People fall into one of two groups: Those who believe in the old 'sticks and stones' adage and those who don't." It takes a weak person to be harmed by words.
