[General Battuta]

Hrm, I'm torn on that one. I do appreciate some authenticity with historical profanity, I'll admit.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

* Androgeos Exeunt votes for No despite not liking the use of profanity.

If you want to use profanity, you can go ahead and use it. I don't see any reason in stopping you from doing so. If there's one thing worse than profanity, it's filling up the interior of chicken bun with 10% meat and 90% air, i.e. hitting everything except the point, the point in this case being the profanity in question. Attempting to mask out profanity by substituting it with anything other than the asterisk is something I cannot tolerate. Unless if it was meant as humour. In which case I'm indifferent to it.

I would place a link to a YouTube video called Big Bill Hell's here, but I don't think some people would approve, and I doubt it's worth it either.

[Scotty]

I voted yes, but only because there wasn't an option that I preferred.  I think it'd be funny for a couple days, but that doesn't mean people should.

[Macfie]

The use of profanity is an indication of a lack of vocabulary and language skills.

[General Battuta]

The use of profanity is an indication of a lack of vocabulary and language skills.

Not at all. Pulp Fiction is an example of excellent writing by a person with great command of language. It's also loaded with profanity.

Neurologically, profanity can actually reduce the activation of pain centers. So if you drop something on your foot, it's not a bad idea to swear a bit while hopping around.

[Macfie]

"Pulp Fiction" says it all.

[General Battuta]

Any writer who wants to write about real people will need to understand where and how to use profanity.

Tarantino uses it as part of his stylistic ouevre, and it works quite well there. Pulp Fiction's dialogue is almost monumental in its excellence, but it's full of f-bombs and even some worse epithets.

[Snail]

Using the NATO phonetic alphabet outside of the appropriate setting really makes you look silly.

[General Battuta]

The use of profanity is an indication of a lack of vocabulary and language skills.

Ah! And a better example just came to me. I have language skills ranked in the 99th percentile (and I am oh so modest about it  ) but I am happy to swear profusely in the right company or when writing fiction.

Generalizations rarely pay off.

[Klaustrophobia]

The use of profanity is an indication of a lack of vocabulary and language skills.

only on rap albums

[Snail]

Ah! And a better example just came to me. I have language skills ranked in the 99th percentile (and I am oh so modest about it  ) but I am happy to swear profusely in the right company or when writing fiction.

Sooner or later you will make a typo! And then you will be sorry!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

[General Battuta]

I always do.

I have this bad habit of swapping words around sometimes. It's very embarrassing.

Also, I can never remember how to spell embarrassing.

[MR_T3D]

I always do.

I have this bad habit of swapping words around sometimes. It's very embarrassing.

Also, I can never remember how to spell embarrassing.

that's you're issue.

hey, we have the personal option to tuns them cusses into ***'s, I suppose something more creative for that optional filter could be cool.

but not really worth it.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The use of profanity is an indication of a lack of vocabulary and language skills.

So are you saying that J.K. Rowling lacks vocabulary and language skills?

[swashmebuckle]

Hrm, I'm torn on that one. I do appreciate some authenticity with historical profanity, I'll admit.

Historically informed swearing for the win.  Any given Al Swearengen tirade from Deadwood will pretty much make my day.  Modern cussing in a historic setting can be just as jarring as seeing Shakespeare with modernized dialogue--if it doesn't fit, and if you're gonna make the actors wear the poofy pants and **** anyway, why not go the extra mile and at least try to line up with the modern audience's assumptions of what people sounded like in the period?  I mean everybody knows the Romans spoke Mid-Atlantic leaning English don't rock the boat guys!

[Macfie]

The use of profanity is an indication of a lack of vocabulary and language skills.

So are you saying that J.K. Rowling lacks vocabulary and language skills?

It can also be an accomodation to the vocabulary and language skills of your target audience.

[BloodEagle]

The use of profanity is an indication of a lack of vocabulary and language skills.

So are you saying that J.K. Rowling lacks vocabulary and language skills?

Yes.

This is apparent when you realize that all she did was swap a 'g' with a 'd' for every use of word 'wand' in order to make it family friendly.  

Seriously, read the books that way.  

[Bobboau]

**** you all.

[Klaustrophobia]

The use of profanity is an indication of a lack of vocabulary and language skills.

So are you saying that J.K. Rowling lacks vocabulary and language skills?

Yes.

This is apparent when you realize that all she did was swap a 'g' with a 'd' for every use of word 'wand' in order to make it family friendly.  

Seriously, read the books that way.  

if that's not the 500th time i've seen that suggestion....

[Mongoose]

The OP's idea seems pretty terrible, but SA's "gently caress" filter amuses me greatly.