So the author would have us believe that the “poets” of most every Rap “song”, are merely enthusiastically emphasizing their emotive responses, rather than the vulgar and common, as they express themselves with profanity.
Funny, I have read Einstein, Poe, Twain, Shakespeare, Feyman, Dickens, Hemmingway, Tolkein, Orwell, Heinlien, Asmov, Koontz and many others - and they have expressed almost every emotion known to mankind - and didn’t seem to feel the need to use profanity.
Some of the best comics who have ever graced the stage, could provide hours of legendary performance, and never go there. May I offer Red Skelton as an example.
While swearing was not done in my parents home, I gradually used it around friends after high school. It was rare though, because I didn’t want it to become automatic. That paid off during my dating years, and then the courtship of my wife. Classy girls like classy guys. One chick told me once, “You’re language so mature, not sloppy and in the gutter like most guys.” I have mostly one to thank for that....
Thanks Mom!!
Check Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, any of the Victorian era authors. I’m a fan of Henry Miller’s works.😀
Jerry Seinfeld says if you have to curse in your act you haven’t fully developed the joke.
On the other hand, the likes of George Carlin, Andrew Dice Clay, etc are faves!
Shakespeare certainly used oaths and “minced oaths”, which were the common “swear words” of his day. In fact the historical use of prohibited oaths as profanities is why we still call it “swearing” even today.
no swearing in the Good Book!