[garinda]

It wasn't just because I had a very good English master at school, it's widely known that Shakespeare wrote a lot of jokes into his plays that the earthy, sometimes illiterate rabble, would easily have got, but with the passgage of time we easily miss them because language evolves.

I personally hate swearing, especially by young people who use the f-word, usually many times in the same sentence, thus demeaning it's significance. I'd much rather see less swearing in the playground, which every child will encounter, a fact that may be aided by the reasoned discussion about how offensive language can be, even if it was discussed in the context of an English lesson.

I never in my life heard my father swear, even if he hit his thumb with a hammer he would say, for some reason, 'blood and sand'. An utterance so unusual, it was always as shocking to us as the use of a sexual profanity. All language is relative, and needs to be viewed in context.