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Cursing (split from Conservative Views Explained)


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Just now, Moontanman said:

God damn it is a curse fuck is just an anglo saxon word... coarse perhaps but not a curse... 

The first is a blaspheme, the second a vulgarism. Both are curse words; that is, offensive words uttered in anger or annoyance. At least I believe that to be the commonly accepted definition of cursing.

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Cursing is definitely more effective when it shocks, which means it either has to be used sparingly, or has to come at a time or place or from a person that will be shocking. Picture grandma, who hasn't cursed a word in the decades you've known her, having her upper denture fall into her soup at the wedding reception and proclaim into the stunned silence, "Ffffuck!"

I dislike the body parts curses. We already have such negative associations with how our bodies look, and then we start assigning that negativity to our sexual parts and practices. With all the high-level sexual assault cases coming out now, I'm afraid the word "prick" is forever doomed. 

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23 minutes ago, Phi for All said:

Cursing is definitely more effective when it shocks, which means it either has to be used sparingly, or has to come at a time or place or from a person that will be shocking. Picture grandma, who hasn't cursed a word in the decades you've known her, having her upper denture fall into her soup at the wedding reception and proclaim into the stunned silence, "Ffffuck!"

I dislike the body parts curses. We already have such negative associations with how our bodies look, and then we start assigning that negativity to our sexual parts and practices. With all the high-level sexual assault cases coming out now, I'm afraid the word "prick" is forever doomed. 

Wasn't it Carlin who said that you could prick your finger but never finger your prick...

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