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Dear Editor:
It’s high time we citizens protest the growing trend in radio and television to substitute obscenities and profanities for polite discourse.
Never accused of being a prissy sort, I have noticed that potty-mouth is a symptom of ignorance.
Ignorance of better manners.
Ignorance of better vocabulary.
Ignorance of how stupid or sophomoric or downright insulating it all sounds.
A sure-fire way to clean up the verbiage would be to write emails to sponsors of offensive programs. That’ll get their attention.
And maybe the offenders will shape up.
Bill Shaffer
Carmel