Cuss words. “The quality or state of being profane.†See also desecration or disrespect toward an object of religious veneration. One utterance can be a single word, a general expression or gesture. The Chinese tend to be more poetic than Americans or their European cousins, dashing insulting haiku in rude and vulgar strains. Blasphemy is handy for damning one person or his whole frakking family. And here’s a conundrum – why is it that profanity from a man is more acceptable than from a woman? Shit man… equality!
In polite cultures, profanity can involve taboo words. Over the course of time, some words that were originally considered profane have become much less offensive. Meanwhile, some formerly common words have worked their way into profanity. Still others, like racial or ethnic epithets, is considered hate speech generally not tolerated by society, unless you have a screw loose for purity.
Anyhow, there is poetry found profanity – even American. I think of it as folk poetry laced into American heritage like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Common, but also very much a part of the cultural fabric. And its absence is pretentious and unnatural.
There is an etymological a pattern to cussing. Like my dad (and his father), anything and anybody can be a “sonovabitch.â€Â The poetry of cussing requires that the user know how to intensify his feeling with certain adjectives. If “sonuvabitch†is treated as a root, then you can plainly see the transformation:
A friend in an amusing situation may be called “that damn sonovabitch†or just “that sonovabitch†followed by a loud guffaw. An acquaintance that you know nothing about except for an amusing situation may be labeled “that goddamn sonovabitch†or “that damn sonovabitch†depending upon the given situation.
A person with whom the community holds a general disregard may be “that stupid goddamn dumass sonovabitch†or simply “dumbass sonovabitch.†A person who has earned some measure of infamy may be labeled “that fucking goddamn stupid sonovabitch†or “fucking stupid sonovabitch†or “stupid fucking sonovabitch†depending on the user’s mood and object of notoriety.
The next level of language engenders levels of personal irritation especially when theses words are added to the mix: “socialist,†“democrat,†and (my favorite of late), “liberal.†which may or may not be combined with variations of “Shit for brains socialist,†“Shithead democrat,†or “dumbass liberal†depending upon the intended purpose and prose, and our all time favorite: the Libtard.
Of course, this socialist liberal may retort with his own poetry in uttering something along the lines of “most of these apeshit teabagging nitwits wouldn’t know a serious fucking issue if it came up and bit them in their goddamned stupid asses.”
By the way, the whole point of this exercise is to display my general disdain for all things TP. I have yet to meet one that grasps the mere comprehension of (a) true socialism nor (b) the meaning of liberalism. And THEY think Obama is their problem?
Dumshits.