[4397] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: badwords
adwright@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (adwright@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 8 02:09:34 1994
shabby writes:
- I'm not offended by it, I just think it's a sign of ignorance,
- that in order to express the intensity of your feeling you have
- to resort to the word "fucking," which is really not descriptive
- at all...
Well, maybe it's not a matter of "have to resort" to using it.
And it's descriptive to a certain extent, in that it conveys anger.
But, that it's connected thusly with anger, is just a result of it's
being taboo in the first place. Yeah, I can see that I probably would
not use it if I didn't have it in mind that every time I did, I was breaking
some taboo. Its use is partially a rebellion thing, I guess.
But, that doesn't change the fact that labelling it profanity is an idiotment.
