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Originally Posted by gmw
On the other hand, I prefer real-world profanity to overly forced made up stuff. After all, the f-word, the b-words and many others are really just normal English words with accepted definitions used as invective, and most of the time there seems little reason why those meanings need made-up words when <insert fictional deity's body part> has been given in English.
But, on the gripping hand, anything can work when done well and not to excess.
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The issue for many authors was that use of those normal English and loan words were frowned up by editors and publishers at that time. I remember one author who use futter in several stories until someone (probably Kay Tarrant) realized that it was another way of using the f-word.
I also have unfond memories of when Spanky and Our Gang's song
Give a Damn was banned in 1968 for using a profane word and, IMNSHO, very likely being a song about racial equality.