If you clean up your language but still hate the new neighbor without ever having met them, I'd say that 'language' is the least of your problems. After watching some of the actions and listening to some of the language of some of our fellow citizens protesting the passage of the new healthcare bill, the "F" word seems kind of mild by comparison. What's needed in this country, IMO, is a fundamental attitudinal shift. I think that the "moral decay" that you think you are witnessing now, has more to do with how we feel about and treat, our fellow man. The strong negative reaction to the "F" word probably has more to do with this generation's (40-80) general "uptightness" about sex than any concern about the decay of morality. I also suspect that those who refrain from using it and have "taught their families to refrain from using it", still mutter it under their breath under the right circumstances (another driver cut you off----while talking on his cell phone, some drunk spilled a drink on your brand new Audya, wife reminds you that you just forgot their anniversary yet another year , your sixteen-year-old dents the car on his/her very first solo drive after getteing their license, etc.).

What's in a word? What's in your heart, that's the important question.

JMO.

chas

[This message has been edited by cgiles (edited 04-19-2010).]