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In reply to the discussion: Why the DU vulgarity? [View all]Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)Not even reading before you reply.
Here's how you actually discuss something. Here is how to reply to a post.
Yes. I am familiar with "get off my lawn". Sorry if I didn't spell my point out for you. I thought you could handle it. My post about your lawn reference was to show how ridiculous sloppy stereotype thinking is. I doubt you agree with the premise inherent in the "lawn" reference. If you had answered the questions, you might have seen how inane and counter productive your using it was.
See. You were jumping to the stereotype that you were complaining about. That is some sloppy thinking. I didn't say I couldn't see past the word fuck. I have used it more in this exchange than you. But you really aren't so silly that you think that the use of the word fuck is what the thread is about. It is about relying on vulgarity for emphasis. It is about yelling fuckety fuck fuck fuck as if that makes you something liberal. And just as you want to see only old farts as those who don't think that is cool, I see those that can't summon up a better way to argue as little boys pretending to be cool and hiding their lack of thinking behind a barrage of (what they think) are shock words.
Then there is the matter of why someone comes on DU in the first place. If your aim is to simply whack off verbally and entertain yourself, then your language only shows that that is so. If you want to find an arena where discussion and ideas can be exchanged with a variety of people, then letting your inner Soprano flow only cuts you off from those who don't appreciate language slackers. Note that the president never goes on television to sell his program by talking about the asshole fuckers who are fucking up the poor and middle class by aligning themselves with the fucking corporate shitheads who bought their asses. Why do you think that is?
There are mores in a society. Not morals. Operating outside the mores of society puts you out where you can have little effect on that society. See. I don't care about your morals as long as you don't hurt anyone. Yelling fuck every third word doesn't hurt anyone, but it does grate on some - some you may care to have a discussion with sometime. They are just as likely to jump to stereotypes as you have done. However, if you read a post that doesn't use the word fuck twelve times, do you decide that person is not worth engaging? Using standard register language leaves you to the quality of your thinking.
You referred me to net nanny. I refer you to the work of Martin Joos and the concept of socio language registers.