[4405] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: badwords
adwright@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (adwright@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 8 04:04:43 1994
tiuzzol writes:
- You are trying to change the language. We are trying to understand each other.
Did you not understand me?
I could just as well say:
"You are trying to suppress the language. We are trying to know
each other."
- [...] That doesn't make words taboo, that makes them useful.
No, what makes words taboo, or at least maintains their taboo-ance, is people
continually casting them as these diseparate entities unto themselves,
as embodying immorality, "rudness", or "wrong-side-of-the-tracks"-ness, when
that's all bullshit. They're words. Not mere, but also not "jarring-chord".
