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[bramble]

I keep up with a few facebook pages - my old school, where I was born, the town I live in etc. Am I the only one who is horrified by people's language on a public platform? Have they no idea how they come across when they are almost f'ing and blinding?
Or am I just being an old fuddy-duddy who is trying to suppress people's right to free expression?

Bramble

[Ju Ju]

Well I'm a fuddy daddy too!

[Dorothy]

No, I think it is really inconsiderate.  I've ended up unfollowing a few people who persistently share expletive-filled or sexually explicit posts.  I don't want to look at that sort of thing over coffee thank you!  Apart from anything else, when the English language is so rich, why communicate only in four-letter-words?

[CLKD]

Because the meanings are lost in the mists of time? and Anglo Saxon language is now mis-used?

I refuse to get embroiled on social media except Forums and e-mail.

[blossom60]

My gosh, this is so apt.  I've done a short journey by train today and in the same carriage was a very pretty, very posh uni student.  She was on the phone to her friend and kept using the word 'like', right through the conversation.  Also two or three 'Fs'

Apart from being really unattractive, in a young women, it made her sound very unintellegent.

So sad.

[CLKD]

I would love a really good sharp word to use when I'm angry, having dropped something, lost my glasses again, fallen or tripped: rather than the 'F' word  ……….

[Dorothy]

My mother says 'fish'...we get some strange looks sometimes...

[blossom60]

How about 'fudge' and 'sugar', CLKD.