Right! As the Urban Dictionary points out, profanity is “A linguistic crutch for the inarticulate motherfucker”.
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I agree that it is usually worth examining the use of language, and unpacking implicit assumptions. Although I consider language to be a tool, a human technology, so I would attribute the agency to the humans using language rather than to language itself. People use language to create their reality tunnels, and what I find baffling is not that this happens, but how and why some go about it in certain ways. Like trying in vain to secure frail egos instead of communicating useful information.
Using Trump and Trump supporters for example, when people boast using rhetoric which is so shaky that it is difficult to believe that they themselves are even convinced of it
I have a little bit, but I am skeptical of sociolinguistics generally. It can be a valid descriptive system, among others, for those who already subscribe to certain models. My own sociology audit is that in/out groups and classism are themselves rather anti-social frameworks for a society. Perhaps it is too constructivist of me to be concerned about how such an outlook would be realistic or practical.
That said, if you have any recommendations for where one could learn more about sociolinguistics, I would be grateful.
Haha! I am having trouble reading and typing today because of some allergies, my eyesight is worse than usual. I read that at first as “A linguistic crouton…”
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And now the republicans are calling them “government schools” to instill even more anger and hate into their base. “Kids are bein’ brainwashed by the gummint!”
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I have enough of a vicious streak in me that I would love to give trump a true sense of morals, a sense of empathy, a sense of social justice. Even if just for an hour or so I would love to inflict a sense of the reality that he is responsible for causing. I don’t think it would take long for him to self destruct if he could truly see himself for what he really represents.
I also hope that Mom can come to her senses soon enough to keep her son out of the trouble his mouth is headed toward
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A “democrat school” in Ashburn, VA? It’s not really the bluest state in the union, and that tends to be in contention with a predominantly Republican legislature.
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Sure, but did Mommy publicly praise you for it?
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Ashburn is a wealthy suburb of DC. It’s in the blue section of the state–Northern VA. You generally have to drive about 20-25 miles west or south before you start hearing banjos. With the wealth, though, comes proportionate douchebaggery.
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Given that the core appeal of Trump is based on racism (or the strongest correlation, anyways), is it surprising that Trump supporters are terrible parents? What’s really outrageous is what the adults are saying, though. E.g. Trump adviser Roger Stone has been going on twitter saying that Captain Khan was an Al-Quaeda agent and his father is a “Muslim Brotherhood” agent helping Hillary… it’s like they’re really trying hard to be even bigger pieces of shit than Trump to make him look better by comparison.
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The motto sounds as if it was designed by committee. It sounds cacophonous.
This is why you need poets and rhetoricians.
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Seldom is the word “the” so crucial in the meaning of a sentence.
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What the hell? Kids get to go to Democratic schools now? Those spoilt urchins!
In my day, schools were run by exactly the system of government that Trump supporters long for at the national level.
QFT
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Whelp, time to rinse my eyes out now.
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Gah!
Mummy, I’m Scared!
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The boy in the poster certainly has the right hair to be a member of the Trumpjugend.
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I thought they stopped Trump at Gettysburg!
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Asked where he learned to speak that way, she answered, “Democratic schools.”
That poor woman.
Ask any Republican (from old geezer Bob Dole to young stripling Tom Cotton) and he’ll tell you that the uniformly accepted way to casually disparage Democrats is to use “Democrat” as an adjective.
To render the proper insult, she should have said “Democrat schools” not “Democratic schools.”
Did she learn anything when she herself was in school?
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errr . . . NON.
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