Random Fact for March 5, 2008
Tags: language, offend, offended, swear, vocabulary, vulgar, vulgarism
Let me preface this by saying that I was actually planning to write this for today’s fact before I read Jackie’s post regarding the same topic. However, I didn’t get around to writing it last night, because I’ve been quite busy lately. So, my initial reaction was to delay this until another day, but then I decided against it.
I like “swear words.” I think that they hold a necessary place in the English vocabulary and that they can be used to put emphasis on certain feelings that often need to go along with the words they modify. Other times, nothing … Continue Reading