Why do I get the impression that psychoslice swears like a fucking trooper, by his own definition?
For my money, though swearing can be a sign of a limited vocabulary, it has nothing to do with intelligence nor can any inference be drawn in that area - any more than it can be an indicator of sexuality or political preference. I love language, I love painting with words. You have the basic structural words (it, the, and, but etc) which are the pencil sketch lines defining the shape of the painting. Then there is the incredibly rich palette of the English language giving depth and definition. Finally there are the epithets, which to me are akin to the day-glo and metallics; useful in their own way, but garish and tacky if overused.
Indeed, the fact that I just got you to picture language as a painting is evidence that it works.
I balk at any suggestion that my use of language in any of its forms be curtailed and my palette limited.
For my money, though swearing can be a sign of a limited vocabulary, it has nothing to do with intelligence nor can any inference be drawn in that area - any more than it can be an indicator of sexuality or political preference. I love language, I love painting with words. You have the basic structural words (it, the, and, but etc) which are the pencil sketch lines defining the shape of the painting. Then there is the incredibly rich palette of the English language giving depth and definition. Finally there are the epithets, which to me are akin to the day-glo and metallics; useful in their own way, but garish and tacky if overused.
Indeed, the fact that I just got you to picture language as a painting is evidence that it works.
I balk at any suggestion that my use of language in any of its forms be curtailed and my palette limited.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
