Bad Language
Aug. 21st, 2021 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloAccording to a recent survey British people swore less in 2014 than they did in 1994.
Yes, that accords with my experience.
The fun of swearing is that it's transgressive. As it becomes normalised- as happened in the 90s- the fun factor diminishes. Where's the dividend in saying "fuck" if no-one is shocked?
There's a fashion is swear words. "Bloody" is well out of favour. From my own observation I'd say the same is true of "damn"- which was considered pretty strong when I was a kid but can now be printed without asterisks in even the mildest of family publications.
Incidentally the convention that you can disguise a swearword by inserting asterisks has always struck me as daft. Is there a person on the planet who is doesn't know what is meant by "f*ck", "sh*t" and "b*gg*r"?|
Yes, that accords with my experience.
The fun of swearing is that it's transgressive. As it becomes normalised- as happened in the 90s- the fun factor diminishes. Where's the dividend in saying "fuck" if no-one is shocked?
There's a fashion is swear words. "Bloody" is well out of favour. From my own observation I'd say the same is true of "damn"- which was considered pretty strong when I was a kid but can now be printed without asterisks in even the mildest of family publications.
Incidentally the convention that you can disguise a swearword by inserting asterisks has always struck me as daft. Is there a person on the planet who is doesn't know what is meant by "f*ck", "sh*t" and "b*gg*r"?|
Re: P** P* B**** B** D*******
Date: 2021-08-21 07:13 pm (UTC)It's been going on for years. I'm a Quaker by faith and that started out as an insult in the 17th century which got owned.