As someone who grew up in a house having to harshly censor any use of swear words or media containing swear words, and as someone who then dropped "fuck" and "shit" and "asswipe" very freely as an adult, I'm of an age where I've come to appreciate minced oaths for their own sake
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I mean I'm preaching to the choir, the Gen Z kids younger than me are the ones who started saying "heckin'" all the time
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This reminds me of the tweet saying there’s no worse insult than asking of someone, “who is this clown” because it both implies that they are both foolish and not foolish enough to be well known
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Yeah "creative insults" are self-defeating This is one of the only actual important lessons I would teach my kids if I had any If you spend a lot of effort trying to find a memorable way to insult someone you're just advertising they've gotten under your skin
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My high school history and law teacher was forceful with his use of the word "crap.' Whether it was an idea from a textbook, or an idea or evasion a student tried to put over in class.
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"Positively 4th Street" is an all-time classic hateful/personally hurtful song in part *because* there are no epithets and no threats, and the "horrible" fate Dylan wishes on his enemy seems so mundane
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