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I suggest critics grow up and stop looking down upon every "bad word" with perspective of a kindergarden teacher. People will say brilliant things and a bunch
by mannicken 18y ago
I suggest critics grow up and stop looking down upon every "bad word" with perspective of a kindergarden teacher.
People will say brilliant things and a bunch of total complete bullshit both using "bad words" and not.
Again, I suggest going after the idea rather than attacking individual words -- it's a signal of inability to criticize everything else.
- jimbokun 18y agoI think it works both ways. Sometimes people will find something brilliant because it was said with swear words, but wouldn't take much note of it if said with other words. If the idea was not that great without swear words, I'm not sure how the swear words make it brilliant.
- mannicken 18y agoIn decent writing every word is said precisely because it needs to be said. It's not a contest on who can say stuff with most obfuscated and "proper" words in it. It's a contest on who has the best ideas and who can be a good telephate. We're just trying to pass stuff from our neural networks to other people's neural networks through written language. There's no prize for saying the same thing with less swear words but as each word, including swear words, carries its own emotional aura and meaning, you _must_ use them where necessary to convey your thought. In this case the thought was about humorous, uncompromising denial of blocks set by the perceived reality. Something a teenager would say when denying authority or looking to think out of the box, created by the religious past. If you need word "fuck" to be in the text, then please god-fucking-damnit put it there!