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Originally Posted by Catlady
While I think the app sounds rather ridiculous, I am appalled by the coarseness of language that has become acceptable these days. Certain words used to have impact because they were shocking; today, not so much. I am sick of all the casual profanity.
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Catlady:
But isn't that the entire point? I mean, it wasn't that long ago that "bloody" in the UK was swearing. Nor could you say "breast" or "thigh" or anything along those lines. DAMN was "coarse." There are dozens of other examples of language that was once construed coarse, which no longer is. Which among us would squeak about anyone saying "that bloody idiot.." nowadays? No one, as far as I know, but they would have apparently during my lifetime.
Language does change. So do attitudes and the like. Words that were in common use (the "n" word) go OUT of usage, because folks are newly offended by it, in light of new sensibilities and sensitivities.
If one lives in a singular location, where everyone belongs to the same church, religion, ministry, or whatever, with no variables...then, arguably, everyone's sensibilities would be the same. But there are few, if any of us, in such an environment any longer. To me, the idea of "profane" is connected, irrevocably, with religion, by definition and traditional thought. To me, the use of one word to mean scat--about which nobody would give a moment's thought--and a second, which is construed as childish, about which nobody gives a thought--to a third, about which people are suddenly up in arms, makes no sense. SAME EXACT MEANING. Why is the third word "coarse" when neither scat nor poop is?
Same with "sex" and its various. Or "bloody." Or "damned."
To me, the idea that you can tell anything about anyone by whether or not they curse is outdated and outmoded. It's another way of constricting people into little "boxes," that make the world easy, so people don't have to think any deeper than "oh, that person said S---! That makes them BAD!" We already have such an abundance of brainless activity in the world, why encourage it? The more modern shallowness of thinking, IMHO, shouldn't be abetted by further restrictions; rather that someone should accidentally read a bad word, be offended by it, research it, delve into it, and expend actual braincells, than simply bleep it out and continue on with their mindless ways.
And, to be clear:
I'm not saying that anyone in this thread is mindless. But the failure of people to bother to THINK, the last 10-20 years, is really disturbing to me, and this bit of software just feels, to me, like one more advance in that direction--letting someone ELSE do the thinking, the deciding, the choosing for you. Isn't it bad enough we have "journalists" that enable this already? No need to read newspapers, no need to research both sides, just find idiots who will reaffirm one's confirmation bias, instead of challenging oneself to grow? Isn't this app just more of the same?
</rant> Done with this one now, but honestly...been ripped off by more POLITE people than "rude" or "coarse," over the past 4 decades.
(And I agree: this likely ought to move to a more appropriate forum, if it's going to continue.)
Hitch