George Carlin - Euphemistic Language

[MADem]

12. Well, not if he started riffing on those seven words, he wouldn't!!

We have people here who don't like to discuss "bad" language, and they will make their POV known, to the point where it is impossible to talk about word origins, how word usage has changed over time, and the attitudes of different generations about the very same words.

I find that kind of thing interesting--particularly when one can find a same or similar word used across many cultures/languages. It's fascinating to figure out how a phrase (and the colorful stuff is the stuff that endures) got from one culture to the next. Not all words and phrases travel by tee vee and blockbuster films ("at the end of the day" was a biggie that floated across the pond in the nineties, really--before that, Americans rarely used the phrase) and it's interesting to try to figure out how a term got from Point A to Point B.

Regrettably, we've a small crew here that, if you try to dissect a word origin or make any reference to the history of a word, that comes off to their mind as some sort of "endorsement" even if it is nothing of a sort. It makes conversation difficult to impossible once that tiresome pile-on begins.