On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:08:44 +0200, ox wrote:
then again, I may be very wrong - so help me out :)
The universal rule of ladies and gentlemen is to avoid giving offense. So one does not discuss or use references (unless in a professional context e.g. doctor) to excretion or sexual behavior. One avoids any negative references to other persons and to political or religious beliefs. Those are good practices for this list. So excluding crap and merde which are offensive words. Re: "generalised swearing. It's a part of modern language" -- that's a culture-specific interpretation. Such behavior doesn't occur in most of the world and it never occurred when I was growing up in 1950s America; then I went abroad for 45 years and coming back to America smutty language is indeed widespread. It's not 'modern': it's a degenerate phenomenon of certain cultures. It's unknown in much of the world. It's repugnant to refined sensibilities. Behaving this way doesn't betoken one's "modernity" -- it betoken's one's personal coarseness. Jeffrey Race