My answer is : "No." -- it might be an exception if it is a specific quote with a good reason to quote it.
In other cases, if a person can't think of a better way to express the same idea . . .s/he is not a writer.
This site has made it clear that it is family friendly. If you are writing in a way that you would not like to hear your young child speak, your words should fly elsewhere.
I would report it for review.
I'm not a language-prude I have lived with people who learned their vocabulary in the Army. As a teacher (supposedly to set an example) I made a conscious effort to restrain myself from using crude language even in my personal conversation. Being exposed to such language also taught me to not over-react when I heard it in the classroom. People who use those words, often are manipulative and looking for an emotional reaction.
I've come across a lot of hubs in the niche sites that shouldn't have been there. Lots of hubs with too many Amazon capsules too. I think a lot of those hubs have been moved over in the beginning to fill the niche sites and never have been updated since, because if they had been updated they would've gone through QAP again.
Like Rochelle said, you can report them for review.
No certainly not; HubPages is not the place for any swear words or writing that isn't 'family friendly'.
It amazes me too that some extremely bad grammatical and spelling errors are found in so many articles published on HubPages. Writers should be guardians of the English language.
Sometimes articles are written in a foreign language and put through a translator before being posted on HubPages and thus the faults in these articles are glaringly obvious. If English isn't your 'mother tounge,' and you want to post articles on sites such as HubPages, please learn to write properly in English first. Sites such as Grammarly are free and can help immensely, so really there is no excuse.
That would be me! (raises hand)
...although if I must use a cuss word, I replace one or more of its letters with asterisks so I don't offend anyone's sensibilities. So y'know, all those nuns who are reading my articles about W.A.S.P. and Lucifer's Hammer don't get the vapors.
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