 Who would the author most agree with about swearing?
Britain's great postwar drama critic was no fan of American football, but he was a fan of swearing. Swearing isn't the only public act that Western civilization condones today but didn't 30 years ago. There are a couple of credible candidates: The four-letter word for "vagina" remains off-limits in polite conversation (although that has more to do with feminism than with profanity), and the slang expression for those who engage in oral sex with males is not yet acceptable by the standards of office-meeting etiquette. But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness.
 Robert Graves
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