Zounds
Does that seem like a bad word to you? It doesn't to most people. In Shakespeare's time, though, it was a swear word. It means "God's Wounds" and was used to show frustration. These days, most never use the word, and those that do rarely know what it even means. It is however, a swear word. Would this be one of the words you'd have to pay a fine for? I doubt it.
I don't swear. I avoid it like the plague. I don't avoid it because they are bad words, but because I feel there is little use for these words. They are merely modifiers for others words or words of expression. They are redundant and practically meaningless. However, if a fine was put in place, I would push that law to its limits, trying to find as many swears as possible and using good clean words in ways that would make them even worse until they had no choice but to either remove the law or slap the entire dictionary in there.
In either case, they would finally be forced to admit the real reason behind this law: their sensitive ears can't stand to hear a simple word that they happen to find offensive and thus want to alter everyone else rather than they themselves growing up.
Zounds
Does that seem like a bad word to you? It doesn't to most people. In Shakespeare's time, though, it was a swear word. It means "God's Wounds" and was used to show frustration. These days, most never use the word, and those that do rarely know what it even means. It is however, a swear word. Would this be one of the words you'd have to pay a fine for? I doubt it.
I don't swear. I avoid it like the plague. I don't avoid it because they are bad words, but because I feel there is little use for these words. They are merely modifiers for others words or words of expression. They are redundant and practically meaningless. However, if a fine was put in place, I would push that law to its limits, trying to find as many swears as possible and using good clean words in ways that would make them even worse until they had no choice but to either remove the law or slap the entire dictionary in there.
In either case, they would finally be forced to admit the real reason behind this law: their sensitive ears can't stand to hear a simple word that they happen to find offensive and thus want to alter everyone else rather than they themselves growing up.
Blood on the check registers!
and for some reason a Family guy DVD Box Set has been jammed into to manager's ass!
Happy Holidays! :) From my fist to your chainsaw! :)
This is nothing more than a tax on free speech.
But this is ridiculous! This is just leading to every aspects of our lives being confined and controled! This is just one more step to control our freedom of speech.
People forget, swear words? their just WORDS! THEY MEAN NOTHING! It's just another form of slander to express anger, words only mean something if you allow them to and the next thing you know they'll put a ban on insults or negative language, because isn't that just what swear words are? It's like they want to create a false sense of harmony in our society? Unbelievable! People keep finding more and more ways for me to question their intelligence. ¬.¬
Once again, petty tyrants are trying to force their will on a free people. Note the absurd comment below about "putting more funds into local government coffers without taxing 'decent people'".
Why?
Swearing is using a word people find offensive or crass. You, on the other hand, are making broad statements about people based ONLY on the types of words they use, and nothing more. If anything ,making statements like yours is far more ignorant and unintelligent.
It's just another way for our governments to gain control over us. What happen to civil liberties? What happened to freedom of speech?
We as society have become to soft and whine over small trivial problems.
Have a teaspoon of concrete!