[ExI] Avoiding Coarseness in our Dialogs

[Russell Wallace]

On 5/3/07, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> Why are we allowing the level of our discourse to continue to degenerate?
> All for the sake of our not-so-new idol "plain talk", that came in in the
> 1950's?  Can it really be true that there are no deleterious consequences?
> Isn't the logical end to such a progression "rap"?


I agree that it is not good if the level of discourse degenerates. I don't
agree, however, that the occasional use of profanity where it is appropriate
constitutes degeneration. Constant, gratuitous use of profanity would be
another matter - as would constant, gratuitous use of any
emotionally-charged words. Swear words, like most words, have both
appropriate and inappropriate uses.
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