Comments | lhynard: On the "No Cussing Club" and Its Response

lhynard

On the "No Cussing Club" and Its Response

Feb 01, 2009 14:55

I learned about a club started by a young boy named McKay Hatch this morning. It is called the No Cussing Club. He started it at age 14 at his school in an attempt to fight peer pressure ( Read more... )

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dogs_n_rodents February 1 2009, 20:20:58 UTC

What the heck? What is wrong with our society that they would attack a boy who believes in something and wants to make a difference? Are we so in love with profanity? Is it that personal to 60,000 of us? Do we delight in unintelligent drivel?

As I see it, most people don't view cussing in the way that you do -- as an intellectual depletion. Thus, any threat to their precious expression is exactly that, a threat. Ergo, they express their opposition the best way they know how...

izaaksmom February 1 2009, 20:56:13 UTC

I wonder if they see it more as a religious issue... somehow, I think that morality has gotten confused with religiousity in this country, and they are not the same at all.

What I find most fascinating (in not a partictularly good way) is that I bet a good portion of these people would also gather to send you hate-mail for using un-PC language. So controlling my euphemisms is totally okay as long as there's a "moral cause" toward others behind it? Waaaiit a minute...

dogs_n_rodents February 1 2009, 20:59:01 UTC

I wonder if they see it more as a religious issue... somehow, I think that morality has gotten confused with religiousity in this country, and they are not the same at all.

I would be willing to bet that's probably a manner that is very viable in this case.

I bet a good portion of these people would also gather to send you hate-mail for using un-PC language.

Agreed.

lhynard February 11 2009, 16:57:07 UTC

What I find most fascinating (in not a partictularly good way) is that I bet a good portion of these people would also gather to send you hate-mail for using un-PC language.

Exactly. This is what I was trying to state in my other entry on language.

izaaksmom February 1 2009, 20:52:35 UTC

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a dingle." Mmmmm...not the same. I think I will add this to a list of questions for my students to answer (when is swearing appropriate?)

I have heard the same argument for darn. I've also gotten it for "freakin." Generally, I don't believe we can remove exclamatories from our language. So I vary them for fun...

pelliondance February 2 2009, 23:04:48 UTC

Actually, "dingle" sounds kind of rude.

pelliondance February 2 2009, 23:02:17 UTC

One small problem I had with your post is that lower-case RN is indistinguishable from lower-case M. So "dam" and "darn" look identical in the font ( ... )

lhynard February 11 2009, 16:59:15 UTC

Sorry about the font issue.

very interesting information about New Zealand language usage -- thanks