A new book - The Way of the Writer by Charles Johnson - states “that perhaps we should be worried by the coarseness, vulgarity, and at times obscenity that we encounter so often today in American speech. … The problem as I see it, with vulgarity is that it is unexpressive, a failure of the language to reveal things in a fresh way.” That’s what I’ve been thinking.
He goes on to say, "I brood daily about the debasement of American speech. (In the last few decades we have mainstreamed many four-letter words in our fiction, standup comedy routines,and daily speech."
