It seems there is no escape from the gutter element now. "Get your sh**" and "pi**ed off" are passed off as acceptable English. Every sentence is peppered with the f word, with urine and feces, constant references to penises. A coward is a "pu**y." A traitor is a "di*k." Do you think this is because people are cattle and don't know how to demand something better for themselves? Or is it intellectual laziness, and incompetence at using the language? Or an idiotic contest to prove oneself to be the baddest?
2006-08-21 20:03:56 · 9 answers · asked by KALEL 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Part of the use of vulgarisms has to be read in context. Let's face it, some good ripping Anglo-Saxonisms work well in moments of extreme rage and hostility. But they are best saved for this, since they lose their impact by overuse.
Think your second and third points--laziness/incompetence, and "I'm the baddest" are probably the most valid. I'd add, in a setting like Yahoo Answers, that there's the equivalent of a great big blank wall over there.....and the anonymity of this site allows some people to act out childishly by "saying dirty words".
Some of the most brutally cutting comments I've _ever_ witnessed were phrased in exquisitely polite language---and much more devastating than ten minutes of gutter talk!
2006-08-22 06:20:19 · answer #1 · answered by samiracat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, indeed! And what you said in your question summarizes the situation: people are cattle and don't know how to demand something better, it's intellectual laziness and incompetence at using the language and finally an idiotic contest to prove oneself to be the worst with the help of television, films and the Internet!!!
2006-08-22 06:55:48 · answer #2 · answered by gardengate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All words are ways of expressing ourselves. People in the past labeled some words as vulgar because they had the power to do so. They were probably rich, uppity, religious aristocrats who loved to dominate the lower classes--even their speech, from which many vulgar words originated.
Humans have a full range of emotion and thought, and they should understand that they are free to express all of those emotions and thought, with the words that most accurately express them.
2006-08-22 03:15:46 · answer #3 · answered by Baxter 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
why would semantics throw you for such a loop. you meet people all day (i hope) and some are going to swear like sailors and more are going to either not swear or use those words for emphasis.
the president SHOULD be able to get up to the podium and say "fvck it... i fvcked up. now you're all fvcking hating me and i'm a fvcking moron." but as we know he's a good christian and would never do such a thing.
2006-08-22 03:10:22 · answer #4 · answered by sparkloom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The gutter is getting deeper
2006-08-22 03:09:58 · answer #5 · answered by paultemple 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, to answer your question. Well said on the statment.
2006-08-22 03:25:54 · answer #6 · answered by old_woman_84 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absoophuquenlootly! [And spellcheckers are fugitabudit!]
2006-08-22 03:20:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its about not giving a f*ck.
2006-08-22 03:12:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
**** no!!!!!!!!
2006-08-22 03:10:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋