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FreeWill Has A Word For Everybody
Jan. 21st, 2014 02:38 pmI understand the appeal of the f-word. It's guttural and expulsive. It's a perverse form of celebration that frees speakers from their inhibitions. But I'm here today to announce that its rebel cachet and vulgar power are extinct. It has decayed into a barren cliche. Its official death-from-oversaturation occurred with the release of the mainstream Hollywood blockbuster The Wolf of Wall Street. Actors in the film spat out the rhymes-with-cluck word more than 500 times. I hereby nominate you Sagittarians to begin the quest for new ways to invoke rebellious irreverence. What interesting mischief and naughty wordplay might you perpetrate to escape your inhibitions, break taboos that need to be broken, and call other people on their BS and hypocrisy?
There is a store in Downtown Knoxville that is now in trouble for their use of the F-Bomb in their display window posters. The citizens fought long and hard to lure them into opening a store, and now they feel betrayed and dissed by the shopkeepers, even though this probably had nothing to do with the circumstances.
While context is very important, it is also important to be mindful of the life of words beyond context.
