Taking a Look at Phonetic Euphemisms

The national identity of Australia has also developed strangely when dealing with taboo, especially with the younger Australians. Many youths no longer find many profanities as rude or taboo as the older generations, in particular with words like “fuck”, “shit” and “bloody” which used to be packed with a certain punch. In fact, many of these words are actually used as interjections (“Shit! No way!”),

Despite that students now use profanity in their public schools and even more out of school, this could cause more children and teens to use the offensive language around their peers.

What’s the difference between bleeping the word for a second and hearing if the viewer realizes what word has been said? The context in which the word is said should be a factor that determines if the word should be muted or not. The context in which the word is used can make it sound potentially less harmful than it already is. Like previously stated before South Park used the word shit 162 times in the episode and even go into detail on how they can say the word shit. They say you can say the word shit when it does not refer to the actual meaning, but if you use it in a different context than using the word is fine which is mocking the ruling of the FCC Some of the comments they made portrays how meanings of words change and signify how the FCC should stop regulating what can be said on

Words such as “whore lady” (Lee 91) and “nigger-lover” (Lee 90) are also used which are

Besides literal uses for cuss words (as verbs), over two-thirds of all swearing is linked in expressing some kind of emotional connotation. These help with expressing the speaker’s anger, frustration, and surprise (“son of a bitch”, “f*ck me!”, “holy shit!”) which are done in emotional outbursts of these single words, also known as epithets. In addition profanity has a direct connection with emotional response in that when one utters one of these “worser words” it helps increase heart rate and work as an analgesic, showing how it can help manage emotional pain as it has a direct connection. One such emotional connection could be noted in the use of “FUBAR” (F*ucked up beyond all recognition) in the movie Saving Private Ryan to help the convey the soldiers emotions in how sick of they were of the war. Commonly physical fights take place to help express emotional pain or anger, these are normally avoided by voicing this anger through these taboo words. For example one can use name calling (bitch, asshole), or curse in the form of a put down (eat shit and die) all spur emotional responses and can help avoid physical confrontations by giving a voice to inner feelings. This is commonly seen in rap songs where many cuss words are used to unveil inner feelings. Such the rap group NWA used

* If listening to music on the radio that continues to beep because of the explicit words, your mind will fill in the bleeps with a curse word that makes sense.

Profane language weakens a student's communication skills because they have limited vocabulary which leads to using improper language. Kim Asch, an author of an article writes profane language is over used in schools. The article states, "Swearing is not only bad manners, Mr. O'Connor says, it's poor communication that shows a lack of imagination and a limited vocabulary. And in a time when even students can be accused of sexual harassment, the earlier they clean up their vocabulary the better." In the moderate days, people has been very sensitive with many of these words used by students in school because many people do not appreciate this behavior.

Slurs are yelled out like “Fat ass boy” “Kickin that blue gums ass”, “Boy”, “Big black bear” and

The novel uses these words to show us how the word is offensive. So when people say it might be uncomfortable it is a good thing because they can now know the extremities of how hurtful the word is. The student body needs to understand that the use of that word can be offensive. Also for the times they did say it, they didn't say it just because, there was a reason for

The art of profanity, are words that a large amount of people find ignorant and derogatory. It is just the opposite; swearing is a form of emotion that has been in all language for centuries. This selection of words or phrases is used by a large amount of people and is preferred by some of the most profound writers such as Mark Twain. He himself used such vulgarities to perfection in his writing, so he could bring excellence to his work. Profanity is not used to downgrade things but in fact possesses the ability to bring out the true meaning and understanding of things. Swearing is important and influential to language because of how it is implied to writing and beneficial to the understanding of the piece.

“Ebonics” or “black sounds” has been the phrase used to describe this pattern of language. Often used in a derogatory way, this speech has deeper cultural significance.

Phonological awareness strategies play a vital role in the development of vocabulary and word consciousness. “It is a sound structure of language—that is, that language is made up of words, syllables, rhymes, and sounds (phonemes)” (Phonological Awareness). This awareness of sounds in a spoken language is a strong indicator of future literacy success. Strategies to promote phonological awareness provide opportunities to help students to hear and differentiate and segregate sounds in their oral language. Emergent learns can better discern rhymes and alteration and understand sounds through syllables.

In today’s society, you hear “bad words” on an everyday basis. But not so much on the radio. If you have ever noticed, when someone cusses or says something inappropriate while talking on the radio, it makes a beeping sound. Also, when songs are played on the radio, the unfitting words used in songs are altered into another sound so that the word is not said. This is what people do to blur out the impolite words and censor the content for others.

The word "damn" has a long and complicated history. How it entered the English language and answering the questions how, when and why it has come to mean the things it does is difficult to answer. It can be used to mean condemn or condemn specifically to hall (by God), and can be used as mild profanity. Tracing the road damn has traveled to become both a religious term and a swear word shows many interesting features of language and the ways in which language are used.

Nowadays, about 375 million people are native English speakers and more then half of them live in the United States. Also, five more countries use English as their first launguage including the United Kingdom,Canada,Australia,Ireland, and New Zealand. Because English is so widely spoken, there are major varieties of English, such as British English, North American English, Australian English, South African English and New Zealand English (R. Nordquist). In my research paper, I would like to talk about Australian English and it’s slang.