Watch Your #&%@$# Mouth

I recently had a discussion with some of the YW team about what is the most effective way to curse. You might be saying, what the fuck do you mean, effective? Well, simply this: I find that when I speak I curse like a fuckin sailor. I use the words "fuck" and "shit" to represent all types of other words--be they nouns, adjectives, adverbs, or verbs--that I am either too lazy to think of, or just don't care to say. For instance, take the sentence "This shit is fuckin great." Now, in context, that could mean that a song I am listening to is extraordinarily good. Instead of actually articulating that, I substituted "shit" for "song" and "fuckin" for "extraordinary." Most likely the way I said it (with curses) I got the point across. But, in retrospect, when looked at on its own, what I actually said was more like, "This poo is good at having sex." (maybe I was watching a weird porno).
So what? So its my opinion that even though sometimes I speak like I'm semi-literate and get away with it, writing in that same fashion doesn't do language justice. Not that using curses when writing is altogether a bad thing. I am certainly not advocating for puritanical prose, or a hearkening back to the Queens English. Quite the contrary. I recognize that those four (sometimes three and sometimes five)letter words carry a lot of weight, and should be treated as such. When we throw words around, any words, they begin to lose their meaning, and we become desensitized to their gravity. Below is a fine demonstration of one of the best deployments of expletives ever undertaken, given to us by Daily Show correspondent, John Oliver. John...