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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 9902" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p><strong>Swearing</strong></p><p></p><p>Let me clarify my opinion. I think that most people can be trusted to use appropriate language, although Brits have an insatiable desire to have someone in authority make their decisions for them. "Britons, ever, ever, ever...shall be slaves". Suits Whitehall, too: it gives work to committees of "the great and the good" and other parasites. </p><p>However when it comes to "looking for dirty words" in "s****yard", "****aki mushroom" and "S****horpe", I think the whole thing is revealed as ridiculous. It is also self-defeating: it focusses on the very words that someone in authority thinks you shouldn't use.</p><p>I'm prepared to draw a dotted line at short words with a u in them, because most people (including me) find those offensive in the wrong circumstances (like this public forum), but the first two examples above have long lost any taboo that might have attached.</p><p>Who now knows or cares that "Zounds" is a contraction of "God's wounds", what "Sod off" implies, or that "Blimey" is a corruption of "Blind me"?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 9902, member: 4034"] [b]Swearing[/b] Let me clarify my opinion. I think that most people can be trusted to use appropriate language, although Brits have an insatiable desire to have someone in authority make their decisions for them. "Britons, ever, ever, ever...shall be slaves". Suits Whitehall, too: it gives work to committees of "the great and the good" and other parasites. However when it comes to "looking for dirty words" in "s****yard", "****aki mushroom" and "S****horpe", I think the whole thing is revealed as ridiculous. It is also self-defeating: it focusses on the very words that someone in authority thinks you shouldn't use. I'm prepared to draw a dotted line at short words with a u in them, because most people (including me) find those offensive in the wrong circumstances (like this public forum), but the first two examples above have long lost any taboo that might have attached. Who now knows or cares that "Zounds" is a contraction of "God's wounds", what "Sod off" implies, or that "Blimey" is a corruption of "Blind me"? [/QUOTE]
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