At 05:37 AM 24/03/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>Damn if I know, unless it's a writer does what
he
>has to with language to make it work in his
books
>or stories and that reality can be tempered
with
>a genuine love of the language. One "fuck,"
well
>placed, is worth a dozen sprinkled around
for
>reality.
My house backs onto a small, well-treed park. It is a perfect
gathering place, on warm summer nights, for groups of teens
to get away from parental and societal restrictions, smoke,
drink and carry on. Has been for the thirty + years I've
lived in this house, and before. (I know this because on
occasion I was one of them, generations ago.) Each summer
there is always one fifteen-year-old who liberally sprinkles
the word fuck and fucking into each sentence. It is
marvelous, rhythmic, even poetic, and certainly
characteristic of a certain stage in life, an outlook that
some carry into later years.
Fuck is one of the most powerful and flexible words in the
language, and the irony is that it would not be so if it
weren't that so many object to its use. That in itself is a
bit strange. It is a word. It has its uses and applications.
Setting a standard that prohibits swearing is a bit like
telling painters they are not to use the colour red, because
it is Satan's colour, or telling musicians not to use the
note b-flat because it is offensive. There's no logic to
these objections, but they are very human.
Best, Kerry
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