 Which of the following statements most accurately describes the author's predictions regarding profanity?
"I think there are very few rational people in this world to whom the word '[expletive]' is particularly diabolical or revolting or totally forbidden." 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. When almost anything can be said in public, profanity ceases to exist in any meaningful way at all. What is important is that profanity served a variety of purposes for a long time in Western culture.
 The more society accepts use of expletives, the more we will need to use it to function in conversation
 Soon, the majority of idioms and colloquialisms will include language once considered to be profane  The more society accepts use of expletives, the more we will need to use it to function in conversation  In a matter of decades, it will be acceptable for children in primary school to use expletives  Governments will eventually have no choice but to create laws forbidding the use of profanity