Accepted by whom? Other uneducated or ill-informed folks that also believe if the "F" word is used often enough that it will become acceptable in civil society?
"...required..."? You should rise above bastardizing our language because of laziness or the inability to be articulate. Hopefully you are not raising children with such low standards.
“Accepted by whom? “
NRA for one.
“You should rise above bastardizing our language because of laziness or the inability to be articulate.”
If my friend carelessly refers to ammunition as bullets, I don’t go out of my way to embarrass him in front of his peers by correcting him on a technical point when his usage of the term is so common.