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August 15, 2004
i swagger through the cannon smoke
Chapter 26 started, first scene written. Your words for the week are "souk" (also spelled "suq") and "karkade".
I gotta describe major city #3 better than what I did with major city #2. Also, stuff.
We watched Penn & Teller's Bullshit! tonight -- the language (aka "Humbug!") episode. There was one incredulous moment where one of the interviewees said it wasn't okay to use the epithet "Jesus Christ!", but swearing at Buddha was perfectly acceptable.
That's just astounding.
The problem isn't the coarse language. The problem is the mindset that belittles, depersonalizes, and demoralizes others. If I call people fuckers, the issues should not be with my using "the f-word"; it should be that I'm marginalizing someone. I see that as far more worrisome than ye olde word of curse itself.
Or, that's how my aikido brain sees it at least. I'm sure Marion would greatly disagree with me. But then, that was a woman who could pack more meaning into a single damn than I ever could into a lifetime of fuckers.
Oh man...I'm gonna sleep a long time tomorrow.
Posted by sdshaver at August 15, 2004 03:35 AM