Incivilty and the Coarsening of Language

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 Profanity and Obscenity: Incivility and the Coarsening of Language

  • Has profanity become accetible?  Between the media and highstress of the world today people have almost become desensitized by porfanity and obscenity in the public world.
  • Profanity and Obscenity has become part of a pattern of everyday life but it is still not acceptable by the FCC or by certain job categories, yet when it does happen displinary action is not detramental to everyday life.
  • By your standards How are words determinded as profane or obscene?
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