My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.
I killed a lot of people, many probably innocent, but I’m a good person cause I never swore!
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GreenShimada@lemmy.world 6 days agoWhat’s interesting is, traditionally in language, once forbidden words got ran out, there were still other bad words left to enter the lexicon. “Damn” used to be a genuine curse. My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.
What’s next? There’s no new forbidden words. Nothing left in the back of the store. Our ability to run through words outpaced our ability to make bad ones.
My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.
I killed a lot of people, many probably innocent, but I’m a good person cause I never swore!
Not quite. It’s that he was flying a plane and being shot at 6 days a week, and yet still didn’t need to jump up to a new bad word. Whatever he already knew is the language he used.
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TWeaK@lemmy.today 6 days ago
“Moist”.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ugh, too real!