Cussing has always been one of the most heated and debated topics in todays society. Historically cultures have attempted to avoid curse words; blurring them out on tv, making songs with cuss words considered explicit, and doing much more to avoid them. However, so many questions still remain about cursing such as, what words are appropriate to say, and what actually makes something a cuss word. Because of the abundance of questions that remain un answered on this topic, society has become divided today on this vary matter. Many people often use curse words in their everyday language, while others strongly stay away from using them. Whether you do or don't cuss simply depends on your reasoning and logic behind the idea. To begin let's take a look at why people believe that cussing is wrong. The first main reason for this belief is because cussing is seen in society as morally wrong. First off we are taught from a young age that we should not bring others down which is the intent of curse words. Society puts a lot of focus to make sure that a child in schooling does not become a bully. Any time someone harms someone else physically it is a crime and punishment will be served with it. Therefore why wouldn't we try and at least avoid attacking others with our words. Secondly almost every …show more content…
First off in today's society we consider cussing unnecessary, and so we blur it out. However, words like wow or golly gee do not provide any constructive ideas and yet they are deemed ok. Secondly many would say that cussing is not actually offensive. The origins of cuss words have become so lost today that now all we have is the negative connotation. Words like kill though carry a lot of negative connotation and yet we consider it completely ok. Because of this many would say that cussing is only bad when you intend to hurt someone and if it extends your
People even today use crude language,like the commonly used word,”Nigger” (20 Steinbeck). This word is used in pop culture frequently and is a common word in some communities. Another example would be when,”Son-of-a-bitch”was stated (27 Steinbeck). This is a recurring word used in western language that people use when they are angry or mad at someone. This is already language teens see and hear in America, so why is vulgar language so bad when it’s in writing?
In the modern society, millions of people realize that several offensive words with insulting taboo meanings heavily disturb their daily lives and break some special groups of people’s respect to push them to feel like outsiders of the whole society. As a result, more and more people join some underway movements to eliminate the use of these offensive words in people’s everyday speech and writing. However, these offensive words themselves are not the culprit, the bad meanings people attach are the problems and some other functions of the words are useful in the society. Christopher M. Fairman the author of “ Saying It Is Hurtful, Banning It Is Worse” also argues that although
are simply meaningless words meant to damage, humiliate and degrade certain groups of people. To prove those words worthless, the same groups of people that those hate words
(Carlin, 1977) The introduction to Carlin's monologue listed those words and repeated them in a variety of colloquialisms or (dialect): I was thinking about the curse words and the swear words, the cuss words and the words that you can't say, that you're not supposed to say all the time. I was thinking one night about the words you couldn't say in the public, ah, airwaves, um, the ones you definitely wouldn't say, ever. Bastard you can say, and hell and damn so I have to figure out which ones you couldn't and ever
Swearing has the ability to get someone in a whole load of trouble at the dinner table with their mother but could also be their choice of words when they accidently stub their toe on the coffee table in the living room. Natalie Angier discusses this controversial topic of words that shouldn’t be said in her article feature in The New York Times, “Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore”. Provoked by a recently proposed bill to increase fines for using swear words on television, Angier analyzes not only the impact of swearing, but also where the desire to speak obscene words comes from. She references many credible studies and sources as she unfolds her argument. She uses a diverse slew of studies, experiments, and famous pieces of literature and
In her article entitled “Ode to a Four Letter Word” Kathryn Schulz says, “Writers don’t use expletives out of laziness or the puerile desire to shock or because we mislaid the thesaurus. We use them because, sometimes, the four-letter word is the better word—indeed, the best one.” Her grounds behind this claim are that all profanity is contextual. Writing is an expression, which like all forms of art, approximates reality or the author’s take on reality. That being said, profanity has an appropriate role in writing, insofar as it accurately represents how humans truly interact.
Violence is sort of the same thing. We are hurting another human just because we don’t like them or are mad at something else and we take our anger out on them. We need to set an example for the people that are doing it, so they start to realize that this isn’t what everyone is doing and that it isn’t smart or cool to do it.
Although people say many things out of realization that those words could harm others everyone should always be careful in what he/she says because someone else could misunderstand and commit a crime. Many of mankind cannot stand things people say and end up doing things which do not have good outcomes. Some people’s anger or hate may make them hurt another emotionally or physically. Stating an idea without an explanation may be misunderstood by someone else and thought of in a different matter. Foolish human beings like Napoleon get their friends against others when someone does something that does not make him/her happy. There are many people out there, like for example teenagers, get into fights becau...
Swearing is just rude. When I hear someone swear, either at me, or someone else, or even at nothing, the respect I had for them before is lost. By blurting out words like that, they disrespect others. They might disrespect the person they talk to, or the people around them by saying offensive words. It also makes me wonder what kind of parents they grew up with. I realize that sometimes it just comes with the...
The U.S. Supreme Court has defined “fighting words” as words "which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace” and are words that are "likely to cause an average addressee to fight." Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568, 572
In my opinion I think that curse words are used too much because, curse words are supposed to be used when you are mad, they are used in every sentence, and people curse everyday.
When many individuals think of a dangerous word their minds automatically think of the words that they chose to omit when in the presence of children or words that are thought instead of spoken in formal places, but what about the words that sit along the fine line between appropriate and inappropriate? For example, the term redneck has a different meaning to those inside community versus that of those outside. This word is the most dangerous because it is looked down upon and praised at the same time. The term redneck should be socially acceptable in everyday language, because those who it describes take pride using it to describe themselves.
O'Connor, James V. "Cuss Control, The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing, James O'Connor, Improve Relationships, Job and Career." Cuss Control, The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing, James O'Connor, Improve Relationships, Job and Career. James V O'Connor, 2009. Web. 11 Feb. 2014. .
In the article, "You Can't Say That," the author Diane Ravitch talks about how certain words are deleted from books or not shown in films because they could offend certain groups. In the article, Ravitch argues that although it may seem like we live in a world where anything goes, the truth is, that's not true. Diane does research and gathers a list of more than five hundred words that regularly get deleted from textbooks and tests. Some of the words include cowboy, brotherhood, yacht, and primitive. Personally I believe that the censoring of words these days is somewhat extreme. I understand that certain groups could be offended by such words but why should everyone else not get the original words the author is trying to write because of that.
Hence, censorship is essential in society to eliminate discrimination on basis of race and gender, protect children, maintain stability and restore what censor sees as lost moral values. Censorship occurs when expressive materials like books, magazines, movies, videos, music or works of art are restricted to particular audiences based on their age or other characteristics. http://www.ala.org/oif/intellectualfreedeomandcensorship.html) Censorship is not a recent development. It wasn’t imposed properly or there weren’t strict regulations before.