Is our vocabulary as limited as the movies would have us believe?

Now I’m not so naïve as to think this particular profanity is not used on occasion, or with frequency in certain walks of life. I worked for a year on an aircraft assembly line in California, I was in the Army for three years and I’ve worked in various other situations where that word flew around freely. But not in every social situation, in every workplace, in every conversation, whether heated or calm.

Are screenwriters, or actors, really so limited in their vocabulary that they can’t think of any other way for characters to express themselves?

If that’s the case, they should return to school, take an English class and bury their noses in a dictionary or thesaurus.

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