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This was, after all, a man renowned for his retiring propriety, a man who sedulously barred anything smacking of the salacious--from lingerie ads to four-letter words--from the magazine he stewarded from 1952 until 1987, five years before his death.
Vulgar , which really means no more than `unrefined,' is rarely encountered in modern dictionaries as a label because people have taken to designating four-letter words as vulgar, illustrating the semantic process known as pejoration `depreciation,' the opposite of melioration . Today we should probably consider labeling Great!
Thus, when uttered by an actor whose thumb has just been struck by a hammer or who has suffered some frustration or other outrage, any of several four-letter words seem as natural as in real life.
For many, slang and its treatment—however clinical—is taboo, for it is loaded language, not so much with the expected four-letter words (of which there are only a handful) but with racial, religious, and ethnic slurs, which are both derogatory and offensive and are shunned like the plague by liberals.
True, Duck Soup didn't resort to bunches of four-letter words--OK, cannonades of four-letter words--for shock value.