Carolina Reader

The central claim in the Achenbach piece is that the F- word is part of adulthood and is a necessary explicative that is needed to get certain feelings over. He says that certain substitutes would just provide the same effect. Swearing off swearing however is in opposition to this in that the author believes curse words should be substituted with other less vulgar responses. His article mainly focuses on the arena of sports in which cursing is a very common practice. The articles are different in that the first one provides more evidence and the other one is more comical.