Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 12, 2023

Euphemists?

I know, we just had elections here.

Politics?

What the heck would that be?

Would the good word to describe them be “rectums”?

Jackholes. A combination of jack@$$ and @$$hole.

Novelists?

A character in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” says “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”

Well, fudge! Cheese and Crackers! Gol Dang it!!!

Bad words are the good words that people have ruined.

Optimists?

Digital age… would that word be cursors?

Protracted usage of normally ‘safe’ words can make idiom of us all.

Profanity is the linguistic crutch of the inarticulate mother****er.

There are no bad words, kid, only words that some people have designated as useful for social control of others, generally by guilt-tripping them. But take heart. For every word you’re not supposed to say, there’s a corresponding euphemism (poop, dick, boobs, screw, mortar forker, etc.) that you can use so that everyone will understand exactly what you meant.

The irony, as George Carlin pointed out in one of his immortal bits, is that we have more words fordirty words than we actually have dirty words. And, as he eventually got around to explaining, the words themselves are completely innocent, it’s the context in which they’re used that matters: youtu.BE/mUvdXxhLPa8?si=zyPSMK2iV2Mx2VRU

That’s pretty much happened though. What a world we live in when the slang for making love is worse than the slang for defecating

“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’”

just started reading a click bait article about the 15 words or phrases woke people want us to stop using. only got half way through. My generation was making words and phrases “politically correct” last century.

Propagandists.

Is it a good word, or a bad word?

“Occupy” was a bad word for a while!

Profanity is merely a linguistic crutch… for inarticulate @$$ wholes.

No such thing as bad words. Words merely escribe. Some people have decided that certain ways of saying sex and excrement are wrong and therefore good to say in anger.