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Thus Joan Lunden on ABC-TV said to Steve Crowley, “Are you ready to use the R-word recession ?” Many words like recession could be called semi-taboo words or limited taboos, for scarcely anyone would be shocked or offended to encounter them, though some people avoid using them.
Language taboos seem to be persistent in American English--more so than in British English, where, although one cannot say that anything goes, one encounters more dirty language on television (in particular), especially after the so-called “watershed” hour of nine o'clock (which some are trying to put off till ten o'clock).
The insect people did not recognize sexual taboos, which angered the gods and led to their expulsion from each of the first three worlds.
James Ferman, Secretary of the BBFC, points out that it is only in the English-speaking world that such strong taboos have been built up around dictionary words and that this country shares with South Africa alone its extreme anxiety about “bad” language.
Healthy societies need a decent supply of verbal taboos and prohibitions, if only as yardsticks by which ordinary people can measure and define themselves.