I come from a long line of foul mouthed Western mountain Jews. These are the Jews that eschewed the cities, went west selling dry goods and furs, later breaking prohibition and generally raising hell under the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
As the son of a linguist and a bit of a purist, I don't assign merit to "clean language", rather to "authentic language". Governments always try to standardize language, to eliminate local variation and dialects. And in a sense, your "swearing" is a dialect.
My vote is for "use it with pride". It's your heritage, it's precious, and there's no reason to feel guilty about it!
Thank you! There is also the aspect of living in more than one language, which you share with me, which I think takes some of the sting out of taboo words. I didn't explore that in the essay...
This is great! Our israeli born grandsons freely used that word from the age of four having no idea what it meant. They stopped when told it was socially frowned on in the us. A lot of color went out of our conversations.
Wow! I really liked this one. Also how you avoided blaming me entirely for your foul mouth. I do accept some of the blame. I blame my dad for most of it which he picked up at Ft. Levenworth Kansas in the Korean War. Keep up the good work!!!!
As the son of a linguist and a bit of a purist, I don't assign merit to "clean language", rather to "authentic language". Governments always try to standardize language, to eliminate local variation and dialects. And in a sense, your "swearing" is a dialect.
My vote is for "use it with pride". It's your heritage, it's precious, and there's no reason to feel guilty about it!
Thank you! There is also the aspect of living in more than one language, which you share with me, which I think takes some of the sting out of taboo words. I didn't explore that in the essay...
You know this one, right?
https://soranews24.com/2012/01/18/wtf-is-a-fuckin-sale/
OMG I love this. Thank you so much.
This is great! Our israeli born grandsons freely used that word from the age of four having no idea what it meant. They stopped when told it was socially frowned on in the us. A lot of color went out of our conversations.
Yishuv tov to your parents!!
Thank you! I passed that on to them. 😊
Wow! I really liked this one. Also how you avoided blaming me entirely for your foul mouth. I do accept some of the blame. I blame my dad for most of it which he picked up at Ft. Levenworth Kansas in the Korean War. Keep up the good work!!!!
So have I cast false aspersions on grandma?
Yeah. She picked it up from my dad.
Thanks Ma. ❤️