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I've always like this quote: "Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly." - Spencer W. Kimball Cursing is like salt: judicious use c
by teach 14y ago
I've always like this quote: "Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly." - Spencer W. Kimball
Cursing is like salt: judicious use can improve a well-made dish, but overuse doesn't make bad food into good.
- mitchty 14y agoWhile the quotes are nice, at the same time ignoring curse words entirely is basically cutting off a significant portion of expression. While I'm not saying you should litter all of your sentences with them, they do get the point across much better than not. A (long) view on the subject by Stephen Fry that basically points out we shouldn't lament language change and other ways of expressing ourselves. http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/11/04/dont-mind-your-language%E2%80%A6/ http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/11/04/dont-mind-your-language...
- jff 14y agoI have a related quote: "People who try to say profanity indicates stupidity can go fuck themselves" -- me.
- teach 14y agoNot stupidity, necessarily. Just laziness.
- evanmoran 14y agoIn my opinion swearing is less an indication of stupidity and more an indication of being cliche. You can swear all you want but you won't say anything inventive. Take for example the best f-bomb ever: YIPPIE KI-YI-YA MOTHER FUCKER. I'm pretty sure that only meant `fuck you` with some country-style rebelliousness thrown in. Awesome yes, deep it was not.
- malkia 14y agoProverbs then are exactly like profanity :)