The way you can express the word ‘fuck’ is overwhelming. It could be used for fun, to express anger, and just about every other way you could think of. Personally, I use it in just about every sentence while speaking and typing. I feel like it’s a huge stress reliever for me. In Boondock Saints, Rocco swears up a storm by screaming the ‘f’ word in different ways. After Rocco finished yelling, Connor says, “Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.” In efforts to try to keep this essay clean as possible with such a dirty word, Rocco uses the word to describe the brothers, the situation, and his frustration. Overall, making it a diverse word by using the word as a verb, an adjective, and a noun. While it is my favorite word,
Firoozeh Dumas’s essay “The ‘F word”” is not about what people really think it is. When people hear the someone mention the “F” word all sorts of things pop into their head. Yet Firoozeh Dumas twist that. Dumas takes a stereotype in the title to grab our attention. In the article, Firoozeh Dumas tries to explain her experience as an immigrant from Iran to the US. Dumas tries to show how hard it was for her to come to America and live with her name. This blatantly apparent during her childhood because the children would make fun of her and the rest of her family’s name. To counter this Firoozeh decided to add Julie as an American middle name so strangers would not feel so awkward around her. Julie became the author’s middle name which caused her to play a “double role” in her life. This was because her family knew her as Firoozeh and her friends and coworkers that knew her as Julie. Later when she became a stay at home mom Dumas decided to be called by her first name. This return caused her some uncomfortable situations because the “double role” collided. Dumas states, “make room in [the] spice cabinet.” because she
Since the 1930’s until now, studies show that about 64% of kids and teens have been using slang terms in their school work. It is amazing what some of them are. Slang is used all of the time by almost all people and has changed a lot over the past decades. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses a child’s perspective to show how slang has changed from the 1930’s until today.
Naylor implies that derogatory terms have a twist and are a disguise of acknowledgement to her race. Although it was initially created to humiliate and dehumanize African Americans, ‘the n-word’ develops into a word that admires men of that race.
If there are 785 instances of profanity in the book, I contend there are well over a hundred scenes where Holden used the word depressed. D"Ambrosio presents this same thought saying, "It should be obvious by now that I don't see The Catcher in the Rye as a coming of age story . . . adolescence isn't the source of Holden's outsized feelings"(37).
There were countless uses of the word fuck and motherfucker. Also, there were instances of moderate to mild language such as “dickhead”, “jerking me off”, and “pricks”. Finally, some of the language used is sexual/biological such as "go fuck yourself", "motherfucker", and “butt-fucked.” (I apologize for typing the language used here, but I felt it helped to answer the question.)
After discussing the use of swear words amongst Tourette’s patients she begins to discuss the physiological aspects of swearing. She speaks on “higher order linguistic circuits are tapped, to contrive the content of curse. The brain’s impulse control center struggles to short-circuit the collusion between limbic-system urge and the neocortical craft, and it may succeed for a time.” (772). While this is interesting to look at the chemical and physiological processes carried out by the human brain in the urge to swear she does not finish she thought process. She ineffectively ends the article with “Yet the urge still mounts, until at last the speech pathways fire, the verboten is spoken and archaic and refined brains alike must shoulder the blame.” (772). This is in no way a conclusion to the article and is likely to leave the readers with an uneasy feeling of confusion.
When people think of the F word, they tend to think of a certain four letter. To Firoozeh Dumas, the F word means years of discrimination. After living in America for 29 years, Dumas decided to write stories for her children about her life growing up Iranian in America. These stories were later published as Funny in Farsi: A Memoir Growing Up Iranian in America. At age nine Dumas moved from Iran to permanently live in America where she and her family were harassed for their difficult to pronounce names. Fed up with the harassment, Dumas decided to change her first name to a more American name in middle school. However, as she entered college, Dumas decided her appreciation for her own culture was more important than if her peers can say her name properly so she started to go by Firoozeh again.
Expletives found in the dialogue and monologues of the two selected episodes have been recorded in a table according to the frequency of occurrence, word uses, and the gender of its user.
Secondly, words such as fuck produce an atmosphere for adults, or mature people. One term that is used quite extensively lately is "adult language." This term branches off of the common idea that children should and would not use such words until they are older and have a more concrete knowledge of what they are really saying. Thus, by using a w...
The film The Boondock Saints tells the story of Connor and Murphy MacManus, two Irish brothers, who accidently kill two mafia thugs. They turn themselves in and are released as heroes. They then come to view it as a calling from God to cleanse the crime-ridden streets of Boston. They believe that they are called to “destroy all that is evil so that which is good may flourish.” Following this moral reasoning, the brothers begin knocking off some of Boston’s worst criminals one by one. By targeting big time mobsters in major organized crime circles they attract the attention of FBI detective, Paul Smecker. As he investigates the crimes he comes to question the actual urgency and importance of catching these “saints.” The closer he comes to catching the brothers the more he believes that they are doing the right thing. This poses an ethical dilemma for the FBI, police, and detectives featured whose jobs are to help bring criminals to justice, because in a way the brothers are doing just that.
They’re the words with the greatest capacity to inflict emotional pain and incite violent disagreement,” in his book What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves. Having vulgar profanities sprinkled throughout the book keep connecting our emotions to the story in order to keep us engaged. We begin to feel for Animal, start to hope for the future, or get upset in the moment. Once the barrier has been broken then we can experience the story in its full potential. This thought can be opposed, however, many believe that adding profanities into literature only cheapen the material. They argue that only lazy conversationalists use such grotesque language, which is why the debate whether or not using such language in literature is appropriate or not. I simply disagree, as I believe that adding in the words one may not want to see adds in a sense of mortality. It awakens our raw emotions and lets us feel again. Emotions are key to producing an extraordinary effect. Maya Angelou famously said, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Feelings whether they be positive, negative, or even both will have a lasting impression and profanities seem to shortcut straight to those feelings. They do not dance around the
In the article “In praise of the “F” Word” Mary Sherry discusses the “F” word, which means failure. Basically Mary Sherry stated that the kids of today are getting cheated out of a good education. They are passing through the school system because some are good kids and they do not create any problems in the classroom. But, at the same time employers are also being cheated because they expect graduates to have the basic skills. She also stated that Diplomas are considered meaningless because most of these kids who were awarded one could not read or write properly and therefore, they are back in night school along with adults who are trying to get their G.E.D.
The disturbing scene where different nationalities badger their opinions on each other shows poor communication and horrible stereotyping. Pino's Italian slang, Mookies black talk, and Korean obscenities are all mixed together to show how communication grows impossible among different ethnic groups. Spike Lee is trying to show how nonsense language results in a snowball effect which worsens any situation. Lorene Cary states her view on this situation when she comments, "We need more of them, not less; more words . . . What I do want is language: fighting words, love poems, elegance, dissonance, dissing, signifying, alarms, whistles, scholarly texts, political oratory, the works. Without it, we're dead."("As plain as Black and White") Maybe these "fighting words" unlock the truth about the communication plague, spreading throughout history. Leonard P. Zakin once said, " . . . it's all about conversation, not dialogue."("Scaling the Walls of Hatred") Like the characters in Do the Right Thing, present day people can scream at each other all they want and will not get anywhere because outcry is not conversation. Conversation is talking, explaining, discussing, informing, and most definitely listening.
In Steinbeck’s work, Of Mice and Men, he artfully uses diction to portray Slim, leaving the reader with a vision of a towering strong wise man. Steinbeck uses a variety of diction, some to show Slim’s personality, while others to show the respect he is given and the way he prefers to work. These types of diction create the perfect painting of Slim.
My fellow friends of Utaboopia, I have decided to share with you a part of our language in which you do not use, and do not understand. This part of our language is called Taboo Language. Taboo language is used when discussing words or terms that are unsuitable or illicit within a culture or community. Taboo language can be vulgar, profane, or obscene. Taboo words and language are usually not talked about amongst each either. For example you would not discuss personal problems such as a disease, addiction, family matter, or loss of life. Taboo language can also be used to express an extreme emotion or feeling. For example in our language we use the word fuck to describe many different feelings and meanings. It can be used to accentuate an expression: rather than just saying “ I hate work”, I would say “I fucking hate work”!