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Takimag The Four-Letter Failure Today’s bandiers of obscenity could learn a thing or two from Greek. TakiMag Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images As an unfortunate birthday approaches, my movie director friend Michael Mailer asked what wish I’m about to make: “Keira and Lily, I’d even give them up for Americans to stop using the F-word,” was my answer. Be it used as an adverb, noun, or verb, the F-word is now as ubiquitous as “hello” once was, proof that the barbarians have breached the gates and are now lords of the manor. Hollywood, of course, heads the mob of vulgarians, inserting…Open