Does anyone ever get into this rut? I can't seem to know what to write about anymore. Not only in my writing classes but also on this blog. Especially on this blog. Gosh dang it.
Actually I just thought of something!
Ok, so what are your views on swearing/profanity/vulgarity? What ever you like to call them. I call them potty words. I'll tell you mine. My view is, it doesn't make you sound smarter, and you can come up with so many other words to put in it's place. Or you can just get rid of that whole issue all together!
"Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly."
- 2 Timothy 2:16
- 2 Timothy 2:16
I went to a Christian school all my life. Kindergarten through graduation. Sure there were a few people there who swore, but you could get away from it by choosing who you hung out with, or just straight up telling them to knock it off. I now go to a public community college where such words are part of a normal conversation.
In my writing class especially pretty much everyone uses these words in every single story that they write. There was a paper that read the other day that almost every single sentence had one or more swear words! There was one sentence that if you took out all the swear words in it, it would sound like this: ...that... Seriously, only one word in it was repeatable.
And then the class went on to discuss how the use of these swear words was perfectly done in this paper. There weren't too many and there weren't too little.
Um, really? I say things like gosh dang it, gee willickers (lol, not really), shoot things like that and I can get the same point across with out making someone blush. But I seem to be the only one blushing in my class.
This saddens me. But am I wrong? Can you not get something across to someone with out using such words? I have all my life. Unless of course, I'm really thinking I have, but in reality no body has ever understood me my entire life. Yeah...I don't think so.
What do you think?
