OK, no prizes for guessing what this is about.
I'm not a bad language prude. In my time I've f***ed and b******ed with the best of them.
But as I get older I seem to get more sensitive to the use of obscenities. They are words that carry a weight of aggression and should be used with care. In the right context they can have impact. The trouble is there are too many trigger-happy f*** monkeys out there, peppering their prose with obscenities in the vain hope it will shock their readers into believing it renders their sub-standard offerings cutting edge and artistic. All they are doing is corrupting our language. They need to grow up.
One manifestation of political correctness is the determination to use obscenities in literature in spite of the sensitivities of others. This is Freedom of Speech, the f***-monkeys cry. Stop me f***ing swearing at your peril!
This is just daft. Reading and writing are a collaboration between the reader and the writer, and if writers have so little respect for their readers as to ride roughshod over their feelings in this then they don't deserve to be read. The latest hysteria when publishers withdrew a children's fiction book because it contained "twat" is just silly. How on earth can it be a Freedom of Speech issue if, as she claims, Dame Jacqueline Wilson did not even realise there was a difference between twit and twat? It is nothing to do with freedom of speech and anyone who says so is a twit (or is it twat?).
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Personally I think it's a load of old twaddle, or should I say twittle ...
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