
Counterpoint
Heard on NPR: research shows that the use of crude language does not appreciably change over the years. You'll hear the same epithets with the same frequency on the streets of 2004 as you would have heard in 1854, or 1004 for that matter. Many of the obscene words we use today originate from over a thousand years ago.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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