Writer's Block: Almost Famous

What do you want to be famous for? View other answers

Oh, for ... did the person who wrote the title never see that movie or something?!

*ahem*

Anyway, I think I would want to be a renown intellectual - a Dennett, Dawkins, Hofstadter ... even Searle would do in a pinch. Someone who the cognoscenti would consider worth reading, or at least discussing.

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Okay, history question: has swearing always carried a social stigma? (Bearing in mind the usual class-related caveats, of course.)