Cursing is so widespread these days that it’s almost as though the words have lost their taboo factor. With some television stations allowing the use of words like “asshole,” “shit,” and “goddamn,” it’s increasingly becoming apparent that cursing is no longer rebellious, which makes it no longer cool. Instead, kids these days have been applying new meaning to innocuous words to “orally express” themselves.
Cursing is so widespread these days that it’s almost as though the words have lost their taboo factor. With some television stations allowing the use of words like “asshole,” “shit,” and “goddamn,” it’s increasingly becoming apparent that cursing is no longer rebellious, which makes it no longer cool. Instead, kids these days have been applying new meaning to innocuous words to “orally express” themselves.
The Obvious
Kumquat
Homeowner
Chiggers
Fig
Pianist
Thespian
Shiitake
Phuket, Thailand
“Bigot,” ironically, sounds like racial epithet or could even be used in a homophobic way, or to mock a fat person. However, irony isn’t really cool anymore either (in case you haven’t heard), so you might want to rely instead on “spigot.”
Anal Related
Heinous
Rectory
Molasses
“Rectify” is perhaps the most popular and easiest to employ. “Rectifying a situation,” is what people say in regards to inserting something—penis, dildo, finger, etc.—into an anus.
Misogynist Terms
Punt
Angina
Hoard
Slot
“Bichon Frise” is the perhaps the most clever, because it implies “bitch face,” but in a classier, continental way, while also literally referring to a dog.
Substitutes for Male Genitalia
Seminary
Cocksure
Penile
Cotton balls
Dictator
Masturbation Related
Cocktail
Ladyfingers
Jazz hands
Ornery
Masticating
Comeuppance
Miscellaneous
Snafu
Peon
Doodle
Sectional couch
Faction
These are just a few examples, and we encourage you to come up with your own. Reinventing words on your own terms is important because discourse is power. (And it’s also funny because it sounds like “intercourse,” which means “sex.”)
apples and pears
Phagocyte and homosapien
Aural skills
You left out “niggardly,” a completely innocuous word that some dude on the D.C. board of education was once forced to resign for using. However, what I’m wondering is this. Back in the day, the really strong curses were things like “hell” and “goddamn,” because you were taking the Lord’s name in vain, or wishing for someone to spend all eternity burning in hell. Those almost don’t count as cursing anymore, so people replaced them with sex/excretion words in all the relevant phrases: “For fuck’s sake” instead of “for God’s sake.”
If “fuck” and “shit” become less taboo, will we have to rely on “fag” & ethnic slurs to sound really offensive?
anyone who thinks fag is offensive is a fucking fag
Comedy Central may be a large part of why taboo language and shock-value in language has become less shocking. I think using already somewhat “extreme” words and applying them in a brand new context a la Blognigger could be the future of bad language.
I very rarely curse to the point where it’s maybe about 3-5 times a week in total. Some people seem to be more offended by that than anything else, but it could be because they think it’s a “holier than thou” purpose.
Tracie Egan is never funny when she tries to be.
Also “funny” could be switched out for “relevant” or “interesting.” She’s funny when she gets high and acts dumb, though.
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Coincidentally I started a blog 3 days ago (I swear) for this exact problem. It has exactly 1 post and no comments: newpejorative.blogspot.com
Câlice, Ostie, Sacrament, Tabarnak — All religious words turned into Quebec french swearwords.
Enjoy fucktards
assassination
Backside Tailside
oops: slide
a blackout, a mammogram, a dipstick, a boob, a mutant, a scary man.
fucking lame
Okay, let’s honestly look at this post. Strip back a few layers of the hipster onion. Inhale. Exhale. What are we actually looking at here?
A hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilarious “list of words that sound naughty, but actually aren’t!” Incredibly similar to the e-mail my mother forwards me every other month. Masticate! HA!
Cursing will do just fine, thanks.
i hate girls who say cunt, actually everyone who does, but espeically girls because theyre usually fat and gross and trying to be punk
I think this is the least funny thing I have ever read.
jesus christ. we’re all going to sound like a dane cook set.
# hates fatties Says:
12.04.08 at 5:37 pm
i hate girls who say cunt, actually everyone who does, but espeically girls because theyre usually fat and gross and trying to be punk
– What the fuck does that even mean?
9/11 is the best new swear ever. it’s the only thing that will always offend an average person.
rutheffect’s comment made me ha ha ha.
and i love saying cunt.
Cunning stunts made by stunning cunts
Owner Operator
rutheffect FTW. u fucking 9/11s.
Tongue in cheek.
poop.
i do not find this humorous
Swing and a miss!
I think reinventing words is retarded. The English language is already dumbed down to thepoint that nobody knows the meaning of the words they’re using, or they only use 12 different words regularly.
People are getting dumb, is this is their attempt at being clever…good god. I hate you already Tracy.
Who swears the most? 8 year old who’ve just learned curse words, usually. I try not to. Sometimes a fuck or a shit slips out when I’m working on something and it isn’t going well.
If Tracie filled out a madlib, Gavin would pay her and post it.
reminds me of cockney/british slang, a mix of the two would be interesting; like, “I got me seminary all over the kife’s boatrace,” or something like that. How about, “slipped the fig a skydiver to go to the rectory.”
haha jazz hands…