Posted on 09/06/2019 1:36:14 PM PDT by Borges
The old sensitivity about damn and hell was rooted in medieval discomfort with swearing to or about God and Jesus, or daring to take part in actions consecrated to them, such as damning people to hell. However, across the 19th century a new concern with euphemizing matters of sex and the body gradually overran these old anxieties.
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Zounds!
Naturally an article about the f-bomb.... focuses on Beto.
found under carnal knowledge
Blast! Blast I say!
I fear I am going to wind up hitting the report abuse link on some of the forthcoming replies.
Gosh Golly by Gum!
It is way over used in current hollyweird and netflix offerings.
It always has been the word of choice for those of limited intellect and limited vocabulary.
Cursing and swearing is Hate Speech. Pure and simple. Idiots that have no qualms about dropping f-bombs and s-words in public, but would never use the n-word or fa&&ot, are well, idiots.
F-bombs are usually directed in anger with hostility toward the person on the receiving end.
“F**k You” is meant to be cruel. Calling someone a Mother ****** is, well, hateful.
Even casual use of these words leads to a worsening of our culture and a deterioration of how nice America used to be.
Hate speech. Not defined by racism. But by vulgarity.
The only place that still has good standards of language is Free Republic. Contrast it to what you see on Dummy Underground or any liberal site.
The author is a prof at Columbia. It figures. His argument is a pseudo-sophisticated way of denying that the coarseness of pop culture is getting worse by the day.
The F word is overused, especially by women.
What the Feck?
True. It used to be the ultimate, the nuclear weapon in discourse. Once you dropped the F-bomb you had reached bottom (or top). Now, it's entered every day discussions. I went to the ball game Tuesday night for the first time this year. Some idiot fan two rows behind us was yelling the whole game, half to the players and half into his phone, and it seemed every other word was F**K or its derivatives.
One of the reasons I will have nothing to do with American women. Totally coarse and vulgar, they look and act like prostitutes.
In the late 19th Century in the US, when people cursed they tended to use blasphemous words and words like ‘hell’. Over time those phrases lost their impact (as would any curse words used frequently over time) and the language shifted to where the “7 words you can’t say on TV” became shocking to use in polite company.
Now... ah heck, even being called a fargin’ racist has no impact.
True. It used to be the ultimate, the nuclear weapon in discourse.
It’s sort of like Reductio Ad Hitlerum, which used to be the sign you had lost an argument. Now the entire argument of the Left is one form or another of Reductio Ad Hitlerum.
Stack High In Transit.
(I do think the story of the origins of that word is just a myth, but it’s a funny story).
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