I hate snobs who are so desperate for an ego boost that they will romanticize something as trivial as arbitrary words in order to feel educated and elite.
A lot of people would argue that words aren't arbitrary, but they are wrong. They can't possibly be right, it's like saying the ground is intangible. I can call a dog a cat and nothing will change. It's the symbols that words stand for that matter and words can be used to symbolize many different things which in and of itself proves how arbitrary they are.
If I were to refer to a...refigerator as a toolbox long enough that it caught on and enough people started using toolbox to symbolize a machine that keeps food cold that a consensus would be reached, then toolbox would officially stand for a frig.
The "N-bomb" is probably the most offensive word in the world because it was what slavers referred to slaves as because most of them came from Nigeria. Well, if those slaves came from Rawanda instead then "Rawander" would be offensive and the N-bomb would be as innocuous in perception as it is in reality.
I don't curse in my blogs for the simple fact that I am trying to prove the people, who make the myopic argument that cursing limits a vocabulary and shows a lack of intelligence, to be wrong.
What's worse is that the people who whine about foul language don't even know why it's offensive to them. They are mindlessly carrying on a antiquated social taboo that they don't understand as though they are nothing but robots.
The concept of vulgarity is one of the most disconcerting manifestation of human idiocy.
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