Re:Profanity works
by newt0311 on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @10:36PM
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Small point. There is a prisoner's dilemma here. As profanity is used more and more often, it becomes less jarring (consider bloody, bloomin, etc.. as examples of prior swear words). Thus, they their very use, these words become less useful. However, any individual author has no incentive to stop using these words.
Eventually, we will probably have new curse words for english.
Eventually, we will probably have new curse words for english.