Stuff like “god damn”, “fucking hell”, etc. Anything that stems from religious sources. That includes fudged varieties like “jeez/geez” and “heck”.

And to clarify, this isn’t some attempt to avoid blasphemy or anything. I’m not particularly religious and would rather rewrite the neural pathways for those “defaults”, but haven’t been able to come up with satisfactory alternatives so far.

*To clarify further, I’m all good with most other curses (shit, fuck, ass, etc). I’m not trying to be inoffensive, just non-religious.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
    22·
    10 days ago

    I don’t think being ‘non-religious’ mean we should give up on words used religious people.

    Believers in one god or another don’t own those words. Non of them. They belong to all of us. They’re words that belong to our common vocabulary and language. Nobody should be allowed to claim any ownership and exclusive usage.

    If we start creating different vocabularies depending one’s own system of beliefs, if we start limiting the use of certain words to certain groups of people (religious or, say, related to this or that specific color), where will that end? And then what common ground will we have remaining? What common language? How will we be able to keep on discussing together if we don’t share the same language?

    To use a Biblical reference, do we really want to create a new Tower of Babel and… are we that pretentious we think can act like if we were a god ourselves? God damn, I certainly don’t. Heck, no. Fuck that.

    That’s just my 2 cents, obviously.

    • Ech@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      Do whatever you want. I’m not saying this is how everybody should speak - it’s my decision for myself. Not sure why you’re treating it like an attack on society.

      • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
        11·
        10 days ago

        My English is probably lacking (for that, I apologize), but I don’t think I treated like ‘anything’ special. I only shared my point of view on what you expressed which is, you know, the exact purpose of any discussion. Hopefully.

        Not sure why you’re treating it like an attack on society.

        I consider giving up on any word an attack on society, that’s true, for the reason I mentioned: language should be a common good, it should not be divided between groups or communities owing each a part of it. That’s all I wanted to say. By no mean I consider what you or what anyone else could say an attack on anything or on anyone.

        Or are we already at that point of entrenchment where anyone disagreeing with an idea is considered an ‘attack’ against that idea?