I personally am not offended by limited and appropriate use of 'bad' language. It is how people really talk and it shows great emotion. I know some are not as comfortable with it as others. I was just watching the film on Enron - The Brightest Boys In The Room. Its transcript couldn't be posted here - actual words spoken in Court and in telephone and other converstations in real life. Nixon, Johnson and other Presidents were famous for their foul language and not even always in private. I think, generally Americans are more comfortable with such language. Someone, who shall be nameless, who was apparently put on permanent moderation and left the Forum in disgust for use of one such word is not ranting and raving and using every word imaginable badmouthing this forum on another one. Each Forum has its own rules and sensibilities. The obscenities are in actions [most of the things we talk about here that really happen!] - not in words we may sometimes use. Please see the famous court case over James Joyce's Ulysses
http://law.jrank.org/pages/12758/United-St...ed-Ulysses.htmlOn December 6, Judge Woolsey delivered his opinion on United States v. OneBook Called Ulysses:
I hold that Ulysses is a sincereand honest book, and I think that the criticisms of it are entirely disposedby its rationale . . . The words which are criticized as dirty are old Saxonwords known to almost all men, and, I venture, to many women, and are such words as would be naturally and habitually used, I believe, by the types of folk whose life, physical and mental, Joyce is seeking to describe. In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of his characters,it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring . . .
I am quite aware that owing to some of its scenes Ulyssesis a rather strong draught to ask some sensitive, though normal, persons to take. But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that whilst in manyplaces the effect of Ulysses on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac. Ulysses may, therefore, be admitted into the United States.