A Conversation for Talking Point: Four-letter Words
There Is No Such Thing!
Apollyon - Grammar Fascist Started conversation Sep 29, 2003
Curses are only curses because we label them curses. what is the difference between s**t in the literal sense and faeces? Nothing, that's what, yet if a kid says s**t thay get a tongue lashing, whereas in they say faeces, they are praised for their vocabulary skills. suppose we decided that s**t was acceptable and faeces wasn't? The it would be perfectly acceptable to say "I'm going for a sh1t" but everyone would be shocked and appaled if a kid said "Oh, f****s!" IMHO, there is really no such thing as a curse, only certain words on which there are taboos.
There Is No Such Thing!
Yvonne Posted Sep 30, 2003
I beleive it was Billy Conolly who said that "there's no such thing as bad language, only good language used badly". despite his shipyard background, he manages to be really unoffensive 
Key: Complain about this post
There Is No Such Thing!
More Conversations for Talking Point: Four-letter Words
Write an Entry
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."