What is Profanity?
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Re: What is Profanity?
"Profanity": Now my understanding is that all possibly obscene words (from the most minor to the most extreme) qualify as "profanity".
"Borderline profanity" are actually words that you aren't 100% sure are the most obscene.
"Non-borderline profanity" are the more hardcore and dirty language expressed, that leaves no question in your mind it is a profanity.
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"Oh sh*t, you're Galen!" - for me this is profane. However, if I had to substitute another word in to understand how the writer meant it, it could be , "Oh wow/hi, you're Galen!". There is no venom in these words, and so I would take it to be borderline profanity.
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