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The Pros & Cons Of Cursing At Work
What the $#%& are you talking about?
The amount of profanity that someone hears daily has increased over the past decade. This was nowhere more apparent than sitting at home hosting a Super Bowl party and while watching a commercial hearing a guest exclaim: “can they really cuss in a commercial?”
Cursing and cussing have always been a part of human vernacular. We even have aphorisms describing the use of “salty” language. Saying someone curses “like a sailor” is stating that their spoken choice of verbiage contains terminology that would make people in polite company blush.
You peasant swain! you whoreson malthorse drudge!
Shakespeare — The Taming of the Shrew, 4.1.62
There are even famous modern pop culture references to specific words that, at one point, were simply not allowed on television. A famous monologue by George Carlin from 1972, titled “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television“, calls out specific words considered taboo on American airwaves for both radio and television. This became popular enough that a broadcast containing these seven words eventually led to a Supreme Court case that helped to define…
