I'm with Stephen Fry on this one:
"There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of a poor vocabulary. Such utter nonsense."
"There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of a poor vocabulary. Such utter nonsense."
As you show Fry says, 'loving language' and 'caring about what you say' has nothing to do with profanity.
I think it's particularly funny that the author spends an entire article deriding the use of 'fuck' and then intentionally uses it as a punchline. But hang on - even though you're going all 'meta' here - haven't you just spent a thousand words telling us that there are more professional ways to communicate, and you've just gone for your own self-defined cheap, lazy trick here? Whatever happened to leading by example?
Not for the supposed vulgarity, but for the lack of use of more interesting words.
It's like the rampant over-use of the word "awesome". Fine word, nothing wrong with using it, but using it as the adjective for everything indicates a lack of critical thinking skills.
On the few occasions that I hear someone using the word "impactful", I'm tempted to ask "Do you mean 'effective'?"
In fact the presentation seemingly in question (the documentation one) only uses the word 'fuck' once (and 'shit' once) that I saw.
Honestly from my perspective the excessive talk of drinking and booze is much more worrying than some perceived overuse of a random English word.
"The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or verbal interest is just fucking lunatic"
There's a point in your second sentence, but even that is a problematic statement. It's a very conformist attitude. Everyone generally wears a tie, so everyone should wear a tie, and anyone who doesn't wear a tie should be ignored. Willingness to adapt is closely related to a fear of standing out. I'd say: don't be afraid to stand out. It's okay to be different.