I don’t subscribe to “PC” or anything like that. I just try to temper my own speech patterns to be dignified. I don’t think that “four letter words” are a “sin”, but I don’t use them because they sound vulgar and ignorant. There are other, more effective ways to express oneself without them, and sometimes it is far more devastating to the opposition.
Perhaps that is why Rush apologized. Maybe he was, in effect, apologizing to HIMSELF for using a vulgarism, when it would have been much more effective if he had used a witty, devastating bonmot to describe this person. I guess his use of the word “slut” was a fluke.
ha, ha. ;^)
Here, here!
Everyone must conduct themselves as they are comfortable doing. i have zero problem with four letter words and i do not think it connotes a lack of vocabulary to use them, as i know plenty of smart people with big vocabularies who can use them most effectively. i like language of all types and i think that salty language is no less appropriate, depending of course on the setting and your companions.