profanity

Instead it seems the author is trying to expunge himself of having used profanity, when in fact discussing a word in this context is surely not profane?

Ops is not a profanity, and just because your devices are virtualized doesn't mean you don't need them for the rest of the things they do.

Sure, freedom of speech technically allows him to say whatever he wants, but at the same time the school is responsible for preventing classes from turning into a profanity-fest.

Waste some time on double checking your card number before spewing vitriol and profanity on them.

Sometimes profanity is the most effective way to express yourself in the face of complete absurdity.

Using the word 'retard' in this context might be seen as harassment, unlike using profanity.

Using profanity has more to do with the fact that established business doesn't like it.

The people trying to censor 'profanity' are the ones who give the words power.

In the year 2015(35 years ago now) anthropologists are still trying to work out why there was such a reduction in profanity.

And in this case the word was used as profanity, to enable self-deprecation.

This pretty well sums up my feelings on how children's movies approach profanity.

I don't mind profanity at all per se, but the tacit misogyny of that one does bum me out.

There's some neurolinguistic research that points to profanity being more the domain of the amygdala, the so-called "reptilian brain".

Using the word "nigger" in a conversation about the evolution of profanity should not offend anyone.

It would have simplified matters if he had chosen "F-word" or "C-word" given that all modern profanity in the linked article has been reduced to euphemism, as my question wasn't about racial labelling per se, but rather about the need to reduce any (modern) profanity to 'X'-word when discussing the words themselves, as distinct from using them for their implicit meaning.

One is turned off by stuffiness (as proxied via "business-speak" and "dignity") and one is turned off by, I don't know, "unreliability" (as proxied by profanity, not sure what else).

Profanity isn't necessarily an issue; derogatory language is.