I Wrote About Cursing Without Cursing Once. That's Impressive.

Lets be honest here. If you tell people you can't say frick because it's a substitute for the F word, you might as well tell them they can't say butt because it's another word for the A word. Or they can't say penis because there are words out there that are deemed unacceptable to say in public by society that mean the same thing.

Let me take you on an etymological journey.

Way back in ancient times, people spoke other languages. One of these languages was Latin. If you know anything about anything ever, you probably know that Latin was the root language for what are commonly referred to as the "romance languages." No, the romance languages are not languages you use to romance pretty ladies. They refer to languages such as Spanish, German, French, Italian, English, Portuguese, Romanian, and a handful of others that have roots in Latin.

For instance, Buena is Latin for good, bueno is Spansh for good, bene is good in Italian, etc. As you can see there is a physical spelling similarity. We derive words such as beneficial and benefactor from the Latin word good.

Now, have you ever heard someone refer to modern day curse words as "vulgar?" If you have vulgar language, as define by society today, you probably get slapped a lot.

The word vulgar though, actually comes from the Latin word "vulgaris," which means, "the general public."

Long ago, there weren't any Bibles written in English or French or whatever language you happened to be speaking at this undisclosed time period. So some people decided to write some "Vulgate Bibles." Don't ask me to get specific with this History stuff. As far as I'm concerned Gandhi wrote the Vulgate Bible. Go do some of your own research, lazy. What do I look like to you, Wikipedia?

I promise to the good God above, if any of you go complaining that I called the Bible vulgar, I will go into a fit of unquenchable nerd rage.

The Vulgate Bible was written in a language that everybody could understand, so that way people wouldn't have to listen to some boring priest tell his version of the Bible instead of reading it for themselves.

What I'm getting at here is that when people use "vulgar" language, they're using language that the common man understands.

So this, for instance, is not "vulgar": "Salutations, my amiable acquaintance! On account of the ominous fulminations overhead I think it best we remove ourselves from this large, open plain, lest we become the victim of precipitation!"

This however, is "vulgar": "Hey man, we should probably head inside, it looks like rain."

One day I suspect there will be new slang that's a public no-no to say, and all all the kids are going to be running around saying "f*** this applesauce s***, get me a ************* corndog, mom!" and people won't think anymore about it than they do when we say "screw Burger King, it tastes like crap, get me a dang McGriddle!" right now.

Times change. Holding onto tradition never hurt anybody, but if you refuse to move forward with the changing times, you'll do just that; you wont move forward. You're either with society, behind society, or ahead of society. If you're behind you're outdated, if you're ahead you're an outcast, and if you're with it you're with it you're a conformist. There really is no winning.