| | I'm worried. And I generally don't get worried, but this is important. No, it's not about the Middle East. People who worry about the Middle East pay way too much attention to the news. Israel's bombing a stone age country back into....the stick age, I guess, but it's not going to start a regional war. Nobody cares about Lebanon except the Lebanese, and even they're jumping ship if they can. What I'm worried about, being a man of language, is the decline of the swear word. Yes, you heard that right. But, people are swearing now more than every, you say. Yes, exactly. Everybody swears at everything all the time. Curse words are the new crutch words, something unimaginative people say to fill space. At the rate it's going, the entire English language will be reduced to profanities by 2019. It's not so much that we'll have an small vocabulary as that there will be no way to insult people anymore. Really, when you throw the f -word around like a baseball at the world series, there's not much you can say to someone when you're really mad. Who knows, maybe people will have to revert to Old English for trash talk. I can see it now, some black gangsta leaning out his window in a drive-by shouting - "A pox upon thee and thine, thou knave!"
Well, maybe not. But you never know.
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| | Posted 7/19/2006 6:43 PM - 10 comments
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