Taboo Language: People Should Get the F**k Over It

Taboo Language: People Should Get the F**k Over It

Published by Rosie Hayles | 4th April '19 | Taboo Language 

Who decided this? How have once harmless lexis, over time, developed with a bad reputation? I bet you had no idea that the seemingly offensive expletive 'sh*t' used to mean 'to cut/ split/ separate from the body' according to Old English. Who decided to create these alternative suggestions of the words? Well... Who cares? GET OVER IT. 

You prescriptive prudes cannot tell me that you haven't exclaimed every word under the sun when stubbing your toe on the side of you bed; or treading on a plug facing up you haven't burst with expletives, even ones that have been made pejorative (made negative) . It does make it feel better, you  know it, I know it.

Sorry Johnathon Swift, I know language change makes you turn in your grave. Yet even he, would know that these words do have definite origin. Like 'f**k' for instance,, has been around since the 1900s, and yet the semantics have changed. Yet why are these words exempt from being 'socially accepted' in certain situations. The word 'nice', how come this word used to mean 'silly/ foolish' yet is now pejorative(negative) and has has been ameliorated (made positive). Yet if we say to a person 'Oh, you're nice' no one would take offense as they would've in the 1520s. 

Now I am aware the title of this post is that people should get over this subject, and do you not agree that they should? A knowingly emo band in 1976 known as the 'Sex Pistols'  are banned from TV, overreaction or what?  How can we condone this discrimination against people using simple dialect?  A band with a form of expletive language in their actual band name, why were people shocked at the fact that they were swearing on daytime TV