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Re:I’m all for protecting childrens (Score:5, Insightful)

by Idiomatick (976696) on Friday March 28, @04:29PM (#22898408)

Agreed w/ almost every word. BUT swear words exist for a reason. You need a way to be rude in society. If someone is a real jerk to you being able to say “fuck off asshole” gives it weight. If there were no swear-words or they were used without notice they could not serve this purpose.

Exactly. (Score:5, Funny)

by ZombieRoboNinja (905329) on Friday March 28, @05:46PM (#22899546)

We’re protecting the swear words, not the kids.

If we have six-year-olds running around saying “fuck” willy-nilly, all that does is ruin the shock value of a perfectly good swear word. At that point you might as well be saying “boink.”

“Oh yeah, boink me harder, baby.”

“If Johnson doesn’t get that report in by Tuesday the whole department is boinked!”

Now where’s the fun in that? We’d just have to come up with a NEW swear word so horrifying that no child would be able to pronounce it without immediately being swallowed by the jaws of Hell, and honestly, I don’t really feel like digging that far into the Windows API documentation.

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