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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
There are other ways of getting a debate going other than dropping the F bomb on the front cover of a newspaper.
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I know im probably the only one who feels this way, but i think the "F bomb" is overhyped in terms of getting a point accross. I have an uncle whos an editor of a major news paper, and i recall this conversation He and I got into about language one day. I dont know how it started, but he wrote a few words down on a piece of paper and asked for my reaction or how clear the point was to me.
Then he wrote down "ye old F bomb" and asked me again. During this time it struck me odd how this articulate and well educated man who started in newspapers from being the printing press and worked his way up to editor would "stoop down" to use such a word, but in the end i saw his point. If you want to get a point across strongly, few things are as effective as a word like ****. In the end its not the word itself, but the context behind it. The choice of word is only a means of how strongly you deliver your point.