Vyl Vit wrote:The thing about "foul" language, or obscenities, however you want to put it, or the existence of the notion there are words that are useable, and some that are not for reasons of morality is; it's a morality forced and attempted to be enforced by a religion, (the validity of which has been called into question by its own behavior) and a society that historically has been exclusive...meaning it likes to exclude people.
If one doesn't accept the tenets of religions that exist today, or the validity of even the society (which undoubtedly has questionable underpinnings), then what those structures define as foul language becomes just language. There are more than a few people that find that freedom exhilerating. In the lands of free speech it seems the rule is "sure you have free speech, just don't use it."
As far as YOUR choice of words, cursing. Using the language you find today that seems to be objectionable to you, you'll never find anyone putting a curse on anyone. This isn't meant as a joke. These religions I mention (centuries ago) took curses very seriously, as though they were actually real things (one of the many ways they discredited themselves as institutions.)
If you chose the other word (popular in the southern U.S.) "swearing," the incongruity there is people used to swear oaths. This is proscribed by these religions, and says so in plain black and white in their doctrine. How using "naughty words" or colorful language suddenly became "swearing" can be understood as easily as understanding how the word "gay" has been usurped for a specific purpose and the word "bling bling" wound up in Oxford's Unabridged.
The upshot is, I use that language because I like it. It has a meaning and power I like to use, and it upsets all the right people when I use it. It's very satisfying to know that. Now, if you can take what I just wrote above and claim I have no intelligence, or insight, or background (even) because I toss around a few "mofos" and other such expletives, then I'd have to accuse you with a word I find far more offensive than any so-called "cussing." That word is :
dis-+in-+gen-+u-+ous/-îdisin-ęjenyo-Po+Ös/ Adjective: Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
Thank-you for your kind (of) attention.
PS I'd have to question what you mean by your name, by the way: Hung too low. We all just got offa da boat.