[ExI] Avoiding Coarseness in our Dialogs

[Lee Corbin]

BillK wrote

> the mall, or listen on public transport,  whenever a group get
> together. They don't think of it as swearing, it is just normal for
> them. When they get angry, and want to swear, they run into problems
> communicating their displeasure because they haven't got any
> 'forbidden' words left to use. So violence is the easy way of
> expressing anger.

I have never heard this mechanism suggested before. Is it original
with you, or can you recall where you first encountered it?

It would be utterly amazing (in my eyes) if the proper role of
profanity---or one of its entirely unobjectionable roles---is to
forestall or replace violence.

Lee