My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.
I killed a lot of people, many probably innocent, but I’m a good person cause I never swore!
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GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWhat’s interesting is, traditionally in language, once forbidden words got ran out, there were still other bad words left to enter the lexicon. “Damn” used to be a genuine curse. My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.
What’s next? There’s no new forbidden words. Nothing left in the back of the store. Our ability to run through words outpaced our ability to make bad ones.
MamboNo5@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not quite. It’s that he was flying a plane and being shot at 6 days a week, and yet still didn’t need to jump up to a new bad word. Whatever he already knew is the language he used.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
I’ve been using twit
TWeaK@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
“Moist”.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ugh, too real!