The F-Word Is Going the Way of Hell

The Atlantic ^ | 9/6//2019 | John McWhorter

[humblegunner]

Mock as you like.

Challenge accepted.

As an ordained minister, I do not find it, or you, amusing.

What does being an "ordained minister" have to do with
whether or not you find something amusing? Does being an
"ordained minister" have some kind of effect on your sense of humor?

You seem to need to mention that you are an "ordained minister"
quite often. Do you think that folks should respect you or your
opinions more because you claim to be an "ordained minister"?

You also tend to mention your "credentials" quite often, science, music, health, history..
It would seem as if there is no end to the subjects you are expert in.
Do you suppose that we should all treat you with the deference
befitting our betters? So it would seem, given all your amazing accomplishments.

As an "ordained minister"... you're about a prick.

[daniel1212]

I like President Trump. A lot. But to hear him say “G D” twice at one rally without him or the crowd skipping a beat made me cringe. No push back from evangelicals, not even pounced on by MSNBC and others (It gave me insight where their head is at...wasn’t even on their radar)

That is inexcusable, although I am sure he did not mean it as disrespectful, but such often reflects the culture he is part of, and too often flows from the mouths of unregenerate men (and now many women and even kids), like water.

However, the use of such does not mean that the speaker must not overall uphold traditional values, and whose character is not that of those who love to lie and engage in deception and further the overall immorality of the liberal Left.

And if you want a captain for your ship to safely get you to your destination and must choose btwn a liberal who much relies on the psychological use of slurs ("homophobic" etc.) and despises the people of God, and whose ideology is corrupt and charts a course leading to shipwreck, and a captain who sometimes uses coarse language but who favors the good and charts and steers a basically correct course - despite fierce headwinds - than you choose the latter.

[daniel1212]

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.

Pretty much, thank God, and consistent with the ideological contrast of the content of both.

[daniel1212]

One of my main complaints with the F-bomb is that it's stupid. I'm not shocked by it, but its constant use by someone is a sign of a limited vocabulary and/or of any sense of the meaning of words. It's use as an adjective or emphasizer for just about anything always strikes me as low-class. Some people seem to think that using it all the time shows that they are either "real men" or "tough, no-nonsense women." To me, it just sounds lame, lame, lame.

True, yet there is another class, those who (as often is the case on Quora) can write quite well, but cannot resist degrading their content but the use of vulgarity and or profanity, thus reminding use of the bathroom or the bedroom, or that God's last name it "dam."

Those who do not get upgraded by me, as I do not need any such "help" in thoughts and whose often arthritic fingered typos are degrading enough in what I write.

[HarleyD]

Its is a poor substitute for substantive and intelligent speech, and does nothing to enhance a story or argument...

This bears repeating. Foul language is a substitute for people who can't formulate a proper story or argument, or have lost control of their emotions. It is one example which shows how society is degrading.

I'm not sure what the next level will be once we get past the "F-Word" and the word "racist".

[daniel1212]

The N-word is the new F-word... ...depending on the degree of pigmentation. Some can say it with impunity.

I sometimes hear the kids on the sidewalk in this ethnically mixed city use it toward each other, whether black of white, without any negative connotation, unlike the word "queer" which is a poor-down. Evidently they missed the politically correct indoctrination that liberals want to begin in kindergarten.

[metmom]

Heh, I think the use of the f-word is a requirement for membership as DU.

They’d probably get suspicious if you didn’t f-bomb every few posts.

[daniel1212]

This bears repeating. Foul language is a substitute for people who can't formulate a proper story or argument, or have lost control of their emotions. It is one example which shows how society is degrading.

For the most, but I think some use it who are intellectuals who can otherwise speak and or write well, but sprinkle coarse language and or profanity to signal that they are part of the elite who can show disrespect to custom. But the effect is like a fly in the ointment.

To whom applies,

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour. (Ecclesiastes 10:1)

[boatbums]

One of my main complaints with the F-bomb is that it's stupid. I'm not shocked by it, but its constant use by someone is a sign of a limited vocabulary and/or of any sense of the meaning of words. It's use as an adjective or emphasizer for just about anything always strikes me as low-class. Some people seem to think that using it all the time shows that they are either "real men" or "tough, no-nonsense women." To me, it just sounds lame, lame, lame.

Today it's just another toss-away word that has lost it's shock value. Blacks don't seem to have a problem when another black uses the N-word, but anyone else is castigated if they use it. Didn't a white politician get in hot water just because he used the word "niggardly"!

You're right though that it doesn't make a positive impression towards those that spew it out. It sure doesn't improve ones emphasis anymore. Case in point:

It's cold as f***! It's hot as f***!
Dumb as f***. Smart as f***!
F***ing beautiful. F***ing ugly.
Dumb as f***. Smart as f***.
etc.

[Yardstick]

When I was a boy, I and my one Christian friend in fourth grade made a pact to limit ourselves to “Oh, Bother!”

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A friend of mine who’s a Christian convert with a fairly rough background limits his cursing nowadays to “oh, foot!”. That’s sort of his F word. Pretty funny to hear but I appreciate his self control. And he is totally aware of the slight Ned Flandersness of it, making it a bit of an inside joke.

[boatbums]

Oh my stars!

[mumblypeg]

“..’bovine scat’.”

And horse puckey, too!

[Steve_Seattle]

"Blacks don't seem to have a problem when another black uses the N-word, but anyone else is castigated if they use it."

About ten or twelve years ago, I took a late bus home from work and was sitting near two black teens. In about 30 minutes, I heard them use the "n" word more times than I had heard it used by white people in 40 years. There weren't any other people sitting near us, and I wondered if they were somehow testing me or taunting me, e.g., "We can use that word, and you can't - what do you think of THAT?"