It Takes Two to Swear

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Say, have you ever tried to open up a bottle of champagne, the old fashioned celebratory way ? I don’t mean gnawing at the damn top with your teeth, I mean the good ol’ shake-and-pop method ? Y’know, like a guy masturbating ? Well, I have, not the latter of course, I’d never engage in anything as filthy as that. I mean, who does such a thing ? What, they can’t convince someone to fuck them ? Maybe. Maybe that’s it. Or, maybe, just maybe, for the gents, they know that no motherfucker out there could have a cunt so great, or tits so mind-blasting, or be such an amazing cocksucker, that they could get them off hard enough to make them want to piss and shit at the same time. For the ladies, well, no motherfucker could have a cock so long-lasting and knowledgeable as their fingers roaming around their cunt and tits, getting them off so hard that they’d want to piss and shit themselves. Besides, isn’t that all just sex ? It’s not called being ‘filthy’ , it’s called lovemaking.

Back to the champagne though.. I find it noteworthy that people always advise you not to shake it too much, and in the event you do, they have you point that thing away from them. In this, we see the natural self-preservation instinct of the human species. We don’t want fast flying shit coming at us. We seem to acknowledge the ongoing physics here – of pressure that builds up to immense life threatening proportions. Yet, somehow, when the same theory crosses over to human relations, we just can’t seem to take a hint. We can’t seem to understand that as pressure builds up inside a human being, it needs to be relieved from time to time lest it hits life threatening proportions. A sort of catharsis must be found. Enter the ‘filthy words’. Pressure doesn’t have to be anger, it just has to be a situation so desperately hopelessly begging for a fuck or two to be thrown right in there.

The argument presented for the outlawing of such words is that they are mean-spirited and hurtful and insensitive and cruel and despicable and I-can-hear-time-being-wasted. Bullshit. The whole lot of it. The truth is, words have no power unless we give it to them. Aren’t we the ones that decide what words mean what and all that ? If so, how is it that we seem to forget that we gave a word meaning and as such we can – in the same breath, take meaning away ? The power of words comes from one basic thing, intonation. The tone of voice used is what really shows what one means, as well as how much and in some cases, it might mean the difference between meanings. Try saying a low pitch hello next time someone greets you with a high pitch hello, you’ll see the fucking difference.

Intonation is a human product. So, full circle we have gone, from being the ones that point out a problem to being the ones creating the damn thing. What joins one dot to another to effectively complete the circle ? It’s all about human beings and privacy. As the years have gone by, we’ve become more private beings, to the extent that whenever you’re at a friends with a big group, first instinct is to locate the bathroom on your own rather than ask and draw attention to the fact that you’re about to go and piss/shit/vomit and any other sort of thing you’d do in there. Hey, I’m not judging you, I do it when loud music is playing so that the beast’s growls may be downplayed – every time the beat drops. So private have we become that we use code words and air quotes just for added effect. As if it takes that much effort to decode a 5min+ absence from the room followed by return with a more glowing relief-filled face.

So, just to recap, we gave meaning to words then became so privacy obsessed that we detached ourselves from our original work and aspired to create new ones to privately refer to the old ones, without letting that many people in on it. Sounds like a whole compost heap of bullshit, no ?

This doesn’t apply  to just the excretory kind, words have constantly been ‘upgraded’ as the times have gone by. Don’t believe me, see for yourself.

Evolution ?

Words rely on society to derive meaning as well as appropriateness in reference to context of use. They are essentially, collective cultural perspectives trickled from old people to new-born people. Collective doesn’t mean majority, it just means people with more power than other people.

While the image is still in view (mental or otherwise), I must ask, how is it that the most shocking of these as pertains to current society, all seem to have few syllables ? Does their inferiority through syllable count make them offensive ? Is it coincidence ? Or were the original and present definers of offensiveness just classist fucks who had to keep the little guy down ? Little word rather.

As intonation is key to the meaning of words, in this case, it’s key to the effectiveness too and as such, directly impacts offensiveness. Ever gotten pissed off at someone for saying fuck you whilst laughing ? No, cause as they’re doing that, there’s someone screaming and throwing middle fingers at you. Same sentiment, different energies.

In all cases of alleged offense, two parties have to be involved. You don’t hear of a person who just got out of his house and got offended cause the sun was up. Why ? They’d have nobody to bitch to as they have no face to be disgruntled at, and people tend to want to see a human face behind the source of a problem; makes it more fun to take them down. Schadenfreude.

In order for offense to be taken, two parties have to be involved. It’s that simple. Hey, here’s a thought, how about next time you hear somebody swearing/cursing/being filthy/using human-defined terms, you just decide, in your heart of hearts, not to get offended. Let those who understand how to use words, do so, just as those who understand thinking do.

Say, ever see a person switch to a foreign language just to describe you/something/someone offensively ? No! Why ? You didn’t realise what they were saying cause the language was foreign and held no meaning to you. It takes two to swear.