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Originally posted by skalla
reply to post by GrandStrategy
i think your reply supports the point re lack of foul language, your retort was all the more effective and poetic imo for lacking the f's and b's etc
Originally posted by redoubt
I love the English language because it is so dynamic and malleable that it's almost an art form. Of course, Her Majesty probably wouldn't appreciate this approach... thank gawd for the Atlantic Ocean!
Really? We have the same language right on your border.
Originally posted by mblahnikluver
YOu don't need vulgarity or profanity to get your point across.
Also it just makes you sound trashy and uneducated when you need to use curse words to get your point across. I like that ATS doesn't allow curse words. If they did ATS would look like every other site on the internet, filled with nothing but trashy vulgar comments.
Originally posted by GrandStrategy
Notice that were I to ask you to explain why swearing is vulgar, you would have to resort to circular reasoning. Go on, try. Tell me why swearing is vulgar. Let's see how long it takes me to run you full circle.
Adjective
Lacking sophistication or good taste; unrefined: "the vulgar trappings of wealth".
Making explicit and offensive reference to sex or bodily functions; coarse and rude: "a vulgar joke".
Synonyms
common - coarse - rude - gross - low - rough - plebeian
Originally posted by intrepid
Originally posted by GrandStrategy
Notice that were I to ask you to explain why swearing is vulgar, you would have to resort to circular reasoning. Go on, try. Tell me why swearing is vulgar. Let's see how long it takes me to run you full circle.
I'll take a shot at that one. First one has to define a word. Vulgar:
Adjective
Lacking sophistication or good taste; unrefined: "the vulgar trappings of wealth".
Making explicit and offensive reference to sex or bodily functions; coarse and rude: "a vulgar joke".
Synonyms
common - coarse - rude - gross - low - rough - plebeian
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I think it pretty much defined itself. Being a Carlin fan I could come up with more synonyms. Swearing is vulgar. Carlin said so himself. Swearing doesn't equate to IQ. George was one of the most intelligent people I've seen but it certainly is "course". Thus vulgar.edit on 19-4-2013 by intrepid because: Pared down quote.
Originally posted by GrandStrategy
Which Carlin video are you referencing? I can't recall it and would enjoy seeing it
Originally posted by intrepid
reply to post by GrandStrategy
Bottom line. Would you say, "I don't care if the #$(*^ thing isn't working you %@$!*, Grandma"? Or to your 4 year old niece.
Originally posted by skalla
reply to post by GrandStrategy
i very much agree with your reasoning here with reference to attitudes to working class culture etc, but my feeling with how it relates to ATS is that if such restrictions were removed then some posters here would have real trouble coping with it in one way or another, be that as a recipient to such language (and therefor driving away some valued contributors) or for others in the overuse of their new found powers of profanity - i fear that some responses would be of an even lower quality due to this