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<![CDATA[Why it’s OK to fucking swear: Swearing isn’t big or clever but it shouldn’t be taboo. It’s language in everyday use, we’re a website for adults – and clearly Mr Campbell thinks it’s professionally acceptable to tell the BBC to fuck off. Even if it is in an email to his colleagues. Both my wife […]

<![CDATA[Why it’s OK to fucking swear:

Swearing isn’t big or clever but it shouldn’t be taboo. It’s language in everyday use, we’re a website for adults – and clearly Mr Campbell thinks it’s professionally acceptable to tell the BBC to fuck off. Even if it is in an email to his colleagues.

Both my wife and a friend commented critically on my use of the compound word for a man who expresses his lust for pigs physically in a posting last night, but as I said to both of them, it just was the right word at that time.]]>