A local radio station ran an item yesterday in which the hypothesis was that swearing as part of the English language has evolved in order to allow adults to diffuse some of the tensions that build up as part of our fast-paced lives.
One of the arguments advanced was that traditional authority figures such as the Church which says that swearing is taboo actually open the curiosity of adherants to exploring such taboos. The satire about this statement is that in recent years, the Church and other such authority figures are themselves being increasingly perceived as taboo, so if this hypothesis holds, does that mean that there will soon be an influx of curious onlookers who come beating down the doors in search of .... something?
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