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They're bad words not because they make bad sounds, but because they have bad meanings. That's how I've always thought of it. No, a puppy doesn't die when you say a bad word, but the word still has a bad meaning and therefore, you're not supposed to say it.

Last edited by m71134 (2010-08-05 15:13:29)

samurai768 wrote:

It's not like if a bird happened to make that sound it would be a bad bird, right?

If it's a parrot then it'd be bad XD

Anyway, I get what you mean. Like, who decides if a word is a "bad word"?
What if we just decided that "yubba" was to be banned from schools and censored in Scratch, because we think it's a bad word? Hmm..

Last edited by rufflebee (2010-08-05 15:18:32)

m71134 wrote:

samurai768 wrote:

Well, we made those meanings. Some person out there decided that those meant that.

That's true. We could have decided that "marshmallow is a bad word."    But we didn't, so bad words have bad meanings, and marshmallows are those white, puffy foods.

Exactly what I was thinking. I am excepting from all sides on this.

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

rufflebee wrote:

samurai768 wrote:

It's not like if a bird happened to make that sound it would be a bad bird, right?

If it's a parrot then it'd be bad XD

Anyway, I get what you mean. Like, who decides if a word is a "bad word"?
What if we just decided that "yubba" was to be banned from schools and censored in Scratch? Hmm..

We don't 'decide' that they are bad, but their meanings are bad. Most are sexually bad, but some are bad for other reasons.

Yes. I'm not saying that these are not bad, but that any sound that we can make could be considered a bad word if we were to have it mean something bad.

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

rufflebee wrote:

samurai768 wrote:

It's not like if a bird happened to make that sound it would be a bad bird, right?

If it's a parrot then it'd be bad XD

Anyway, I get what you mean. Like, who decides if a word is a "bad word"?
What if we just decided that "yubba" was to be banned from schools and censored in Scratch? Hmm..

We don't 'decide' that they are bad, but their meanings are bad.

Actually, I think that we did decide that they are bad when we chose the meanings of words.

Last edited by m71134 (2010-08-05 15:23:08)

Oh no. This got religious.

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

samurai768 wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

We don't 'decide' that they are bad, but their meanings are bad. Most are sexually bad, but some are bad for other reasons.

Yes. I'm not saying that these are not bad, but that any sound that we can make could be considered a bad word if we were to have it mean something bad.

Words aren't just sounds- I believe God gave us the ability to use words to talk to each other, but he does not want us to speak perversely.

We're not supposed to talk about religion. That can end up being flamebait.

Anyway, my point is that bad words have bad meanings, so we can't say 'em.

Last edited by m71134 (2010-08-05 15:27:51)

As I once said on another forum, they're bad for your aura. They're bad for your general character. They're angry words.

m71134 wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

samurai768 wrote:

Yes. I'm not saying that these are not bad, but that any sound that we can make could be considered a bad word if we were to have it mean something bad.

Words aren't just sounds- I believe God gave us the ability to use words to talk to each other, but he does not want us to speak perversely.

We're not supposed to talk about religion. That can end up being flamebait.

Anyway, my point is that bad words have bad meanings, so we can't say 'em.

Oh yeah. True. Just deleted my post.

samurai768 wrote:

JUST A REMINDER:

I'm not saying that bad words can't hurt people, or are angry words. I'm just saying that man made these words, and that these words could be replaced with any words to mean something else. Like if we replace a bad word with marshmallow, it still means the same thing.

Sorta like how bad words substitutes are still bad.

Actually, these are called 'euphemisms'- they're words that are used to replace words that might seem to harsh.

samurai768 wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

samurai768 wrote:

JUST A REMINDER:

I'm not saying that bad words can't hurt people, or are angry words. I'm just saying that man made these words, and that these words could be replaced with any words to mean something else. Like if we replace a bad word with marshmallow, it still means the same thing.

Sorta like how bad words substitutes are still bad.

Actually, these are called 'euphemisms'- they're words that are used to replace words that might seem to harsh.

Yeah, but they should be used sparingly, shouldn't they?

I'm not quite sure they should be used at all. Like you said, a bad word replaced with a good word still means a bad word (I'm not sure that equation is mathematically sound xD).

Last edited by Sunrise-Moon (2010-08-05 15:36:37)

samurai768 wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

samurai768 wrote:

JUST A REMINDER:

I'm not saying that bad words can't hurt people, or are angry words. I'm just saying that man made these words, and that these words could be replaced with any words to mean something else. Like if we replace a bad word with marshmallow, it still means the same thing.

Sorta like how bad words substitutes are still bad.

Actually, these are called 'euphemisms'- they're words that are used to replace words that might seem to harsh.

Yeah, but they should be used sparingly, shouldn't they?

Hmm...I think that some words that are used instead of bad words really don't have the same meaning as the original word. They are still not good, but they aren't as bad.