Are we swearing too much? Fuck, no. But seriously, the telling sign that that article has put the cart before the horse is almost at the end of it:

“to understand that vocabulary speaks volumes about prevailing social conditions, and that all our swearing says something very powerful about what a mutually contemptuous, atomised, inarticulate society we’re becoming”

Our society is fucked. A sign of that is that we’re all swearing more. And thus, if we stop swearing our society will be healed? That guy is confusing cause and effect, surely? If we heal our society, people will feel the need to swear less might have been a better conclusion.

(Oh, and thankee for the link)

I was chatting to someone last night and this subject came up. I mentioned that the country is becoming overly vulgar and squalid, and that I expect a Victorianesque lurch back towards social conservatism.

I suggested that this would be most-welcome in about 16-years, around the time my little girl starts dating…

Your daughter is minus three, Aaron?

To be serious, do you not think there has BEEN a Victorianesque lurch back towards social conservatism the last ten years or so? It’s just that we’re actually seeing the stuff that the Victorians didn’t talk about – the seedy underbelly, etc. was still there in Victorian times.

I know the Victorians were actually a bunch of sex pests. I was just playing.

My daughter is one in June. I’m rather hoping I can keep her under wraps for a while yet!

LMAO you’re hoping to stop her dating till she’s seventeen? What’s the weather like in cloud cuckoo land? Don’t you remember being a teenager?

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That’s what I’m worried about!

Trying to stop her from dating is the worst possible way of going about assuaging your worries though, that way she will just think you don’t understand and go behind your back. [/stating the obvious]