After reading the material and posting the previous entry, which was mostly done out of glee and personal satisfaction, I took a deeper and more sobering look at the situation, and it upsets me even more, but in a calm and saddened, non-political way.
Little by little, even as new words are created by social and cultural changes as much as by technological advances, we are in truth losing the power to use words. Words created under the auspices of being politically correct and non-degrading or demoralizing, are just euphemisms, nothing more. But we are encouraged, or more accurately, deeply discouraged to the point of scornful reprisal, for using the old words, which really meant the same thing anyway.
For example, say this phrase aloud: “Yeah, she’s a beauty!”
See the double meaning? She’s either gorgeous, or, and I have to be careful how I put this, not too intelligent or even may be physically far below what we might generally agree upon as average.
This is freedom of speech? Although I suppose we could proudly point to the fact that “ass” and other words that our mothers didn’t approve of are now written into almost every new tv series and movie script. That’s progress, I guess. But the word “beauty”, with its derogatory hidden meaning, probably should be banned.
As a writer and lover of words, this bothers me. It bothers me a lot.
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Or she’s a car.
I always took that as rather an endearing, typical guy thing to say.
A “typical guy thing” is a typical “girl thing” to say, no? Otra ves.
Touche`.
No, yo no soy correcto políticamente. ¿Está diversión, no?