In defense of *$\#\#@&$%#

In the article "In defense of *$\#\#@&$%#"

In the scholarly article "In defense of *$\#\#@&$%#" by Anna Quindlen, the author talks about verbal abuse and swearing. She contemplates as to what exactly swearing is about and why people would be swearing,and whether is it actually bad to swear in public. She gives instaces of people like George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton who have been caught swaring in public which was later supressed by people as having no bad meaning in it. She also mentions that swearing may also be used just to assert a particular statement and may not necessarily have an inclination to sexual behaviour. Infact according to studies adults are more likely(13%) to swear among their friends as opposed to an 8 % by college children. We can thus relate the article with the article"Freedom's Curse", as that also ponders upon the point that actually abusing is done by one and all, and it is just a way to emphasize a particular point without having any sexual inclination or double meaning in it. Both the articles also try and bring up a point that words like jerk, shit and fart which were offensive words, have become a normal language for people from all age groups.This shows us that swearing actually is not bad if not said in an offensive way. So much offense from te government against swearing is actually a non sensical thing which can be put off to solve bigger problems than this tiny little one.

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