In response to http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705260374,00.html we must acknowledge the weighty beautiful abstraction that is language. Like bombs, profanity can abstractly do real damage. Vague cloak-like bombs intended to suffocate, pummel, and damage, stunt, and whack, and murder: I believe language to be as powerful as the intention behind it. And this is not an individual arena. We agree that swear words are these wounding things. And that is enough for now.
Oh, the wonderful work that is word definition! To assign and attribute life, experience, and transcendent color to a word is to bless it as a little tool. The holy rite of word assignation sweeps blankets across the sky in which we recognize constellations. Together we shoot darts and pluck the same flowers orderly in one universe. I climb through your ear canal to know you and the wallpaper that you lick (anybody read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?)