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Originally Posted by TGS
So, your original point, to which my post was a response, was that the use of profanities was an indication of a lack of language skills. The use of profanities may well accompany a lack of language skills, but they certainly do not indicate it - those who lack language skills may use profanities but it doesn't follow from that that those who use profanities lack language skills.
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Well, that's true. George Carlin's language skills were excellent, and many of his routines were as blue -- and as funny -- as it gets.
But it's also true that many lesser talents use blue language to cover, consciously or unconsciously, their lack of writing skill.