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
“‘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.
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.
pschearer Premium Member 12 months ago
Euphemists?
c001 12 months ago
I know, we just had elections here.
Rhetorical_Question 12 months ago
Politics?
Uncle Kenny 12 months ago
What the heck would that be?
OldsVistaCruiser 12 months ago
Would the good word to describe them be “rectums”?
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member 12 months ago
Jackholes. A combination of jack@$$ and @$$hole.
Ichabod Ferguson 12 months ago
Novelists?
steveh64 12 months ago
A character in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” says “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
trainnut1956 12 months ago
Well, fudge! Cheese and Crackers! Gol Dang it!!!
Twelve Badgers in a Suit Premium Member 12 months ago
Bad words are the good words that people have ruined.
Serial Pedant 12 months ago
Optimists?
ro.boat 12 months ago
Digital age… would that word be cursors?
sandpiper 12 months ago
Protracted usage of normally ‘safe’ words can make idiom of us all.
The Wolf In Your Midst 12 months ago
Profanity is the linguistic crutch of the inarticulate mother****er.
Richard S Russell Premium Member 12 months ago
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
up2trixx 12 months ago
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
DutchUncle 12 months ago
“‘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.’”
car2ner 12 months ago
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.
thedogesl Premium Member 12 months ago
Propagandists.
andrew.scharnhorst 12 months ago
Is it a good word, or a bad word?
djlactin 12 months ago
“Occupy” was a bad word for a while!
Ukko wilko 12 months ago
Profanity is merely a linguistic crutch… for inarticulate @$$ wholes.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] 12 months ago
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.