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One time when I swore around my grandfather he said: "vulgarity is the poverty of language." It has stuck with me as a reminder that you should be able to expr
by jonah 4y ago
One time when I swore around my grandfather he said: "vulgarity is the poverty of language."
It has stuck with me as a reminder that you should be able to express your thoughts on whatever is going on with wisdom and nuance. (IMHO, "bad words" are sometimes appropriate.)
- akiselev 4y agoThey’re the gaudy golden toilets of language. Sometimes it makes sense to emphasize just how ridiculously rich and powerful the king is, but usually they should have just gone with a boring porcelain shitter like everyone else.
- ilyt 4y agoWell, there is huge difference between using vulgar worlds to accentuate just how thoroughly fucked something is, and using them like a fucking inter-fucking punction every bloody third fucking word. First approach used sparingly is good, it expands range of expression without making communication longer, second, well, "poverty of language" is a good name for it.