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Old 10-29-2010, 07:49 AM   #199
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Originally Posted by Jude2444 View Post
I'm not a huge fan of profanity either. But I do like imaginative profanity.
Me too.

In addition, although I'm no fan of censorship, it can get the creative juices flowing. Many words and topics were off-limits when I was growing up, but creative people always founds ways to get their meaning across while remaining technically withing the bounds prescribed by the censor. I still listen to recordings of old radio shows and laugh because I know exactly what they're trying to say. On TV, NYPD Blue was a more recent example of a show that did quite a few interesting things with language.
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