The Word Of Word Language

The old idiom, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” has been used for decades, and although a good sentiment, can be disproven by any person with an basic understanding of their feelings. The power of the words one hears can greatly affect their self esteem and confidence. The fact that words hurt is an issue everyone faces, but some words hold too much power, power that can be used in not so ideal ways. Slurs, or words that are used to oppress minority groups, are used too casually in the modern world, with grave consequences on the minorities they are used against. The word faggot, a term used to describe gay men, has become popular in modern America between school boys as a way to either mock their peers or intentionally hurt an actual queer person. This word in particular moves farther away from offensive and can be categorized as oppressive due to its both psychological and social ramifications. The use of the word faggot is an act of oppression when one looks at both the social and psychological effects the word has on both the user and the recipient of the slur.

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!”),

Swearing in the written word takes a conscious decision. It is easy to allow obscenity to slip in the spoken word but writing an obscenity is unnecessary and a contravention of site rules.

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.

In today’s society curse words and insults are used in many people’s regular vocabulary. Most of these insults, if not all, are being said without prior knowledge of the meaning behind the word. An example of an insult like this is porch monkey, a derogatory term for African Americans. The people that use derogatory terms like this are often ill-informed and unaccepting of other cultures.

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

    Everyday we read and hear profanity from books which we should shelter our children from having to learn more about the awful things we have in life. Having profanity in our everyday lives affects us in a negative way because if our children hear the foul language then there is a greater chance that children will pick up the words we would not like them to say. In the article “Potty-Mouthed” by Martin Chilton, states that swearing in Young Adult fiction is a controversial and complex issue. Young Adult fiction is controversial issue because some parent let their children read books that other parents would not agree with based on the language, violence, suicied and sexualactivity. A lot of teenage books have very mature points of view that some or most of our teens can not even

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.

Stated in the website of Teen Ink about the profanity "We would not be learning the true history if certain pieces of it and little details were ignored or left behind. In order to understand history to its most, we must learn from our mistakes and realize what we have done wrong. All language is beautiful in the right context" ("Should Of Mice"). With the use of profanity, young audiences can gain the knowledge and understand the history behind the words and why those words were used frequently at the time. This is significant for the young audiences to learn and to know that they must learn from the mistakes of using profanity and learning from it so that those words can't be repeated. This is also supported through the knowledge of racial slurs and offensive language in Teen Ink as the site states "If people do not read, learn, and understand how African-Americans were treated in the past, then history will most likely repeat itself. We must learn and understand our mistakes, in order to prevent them in the future" ("Should Of Mice"). With audiences exposed to offensive language and profanity at a young age, they would learn that these words are not appropriate and would likely not use these words. If young audiences don't gain the knowledge of these words, then history will repeat itself with people using the derogatory words. This also

During the time in which we could own another human being as an object to do work we would use words that were only used to control others and bring them down. Racial slurs were used to control a person, to make them feel as if they were nothing and make sure they felt like nothing. In the book "When Race Breaks Out" even Helen Fox says , “Ethnic slurs by the dominant group are meant to keep a subordinate group in place.” showing that when any type of discriminating words should be left in the past.

The words I used in my Wordle are penpals, best friends, Martin, Caitlin, letters, Pennsylvania, Mutare, school, and jobs. I used Martin and Caitlin since they are the main characters in the story. Mutare and Pennsylvania were used because they are the settings of the story and where the characters live. I used penpals, letters, and best friends because Martin and Caitlin became best friends over time by writing letters to each other, making them penpals. I used school since school was how they got to be penpals in the first place, and without it, they wouldn’t have ever met.

Along with that, curse words are

If they felt it showed exactly how the person was feeling, it is okay to keep the obscenity in the quote. However, if the word does nothing for the quote and story and the person just has a potty mouth, it is unacceptable and needs to be removed. If the word shows emotion, it is okay to keep in my book. If for some reason I were going to decide to make a list of rules when dealing with situations like this I would decide that stronger curse words be covered up by number signs (#). Words like asshole seem to be on the weaker end of the curse word spectrum so that word could be spelled out. Other words would be dashed out such as the word bitch. Again, the word would only appear in the quote if the journalist felt it added to the story. If it were to appear the word would look like this, B##ch.You can still see what the word was supposed to be, but it doesn't jump out of the page as much because it is spelled wrong.

However it wouldn’t be right to erase or banned that word or words. Those individuals who finds it harsh need to go speak to a therapist because they are battling with some internal situations. They are allowing that person or persons to get to them. They themselves need to be banned because only the strong survive. If we were animals in the kingdom they wouldn't survive. If a person don't like someone's words the eliminate themselves from the equation. A person is not going to limit themselves in a limitless place because a person chose to get upset at something that is possibly the truth. For instance "faggot" if someone called a person that only the person who is dealing with that particular issue will find it offensive and that is because they

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.