Hole in the Ladder: Fallout
Arthur Brash | January 8, 2009 | 18:09Here is my challenge to anyone who thinks bleeping content allows everyone to enjoy a song, movie, or written piece:
Take your favourite piece, and replace with with a bleep every instance of the words silence, noise, devil, hate, god, music and movie. Now do that for everything you see on TV, hear on the radio, read in a magazine. This is what “cleaned up” material sounds like to me – an annoying stuttering as if a technical problem was breaking up the sound stream, or a broken printing machine was allowed to continue to print.
This is the problem with folks thinking they know what others will enjoy. Let’s call the practice what it is: satisfying the lowest common denominator with no consideration for anyone else, not “cleaning up” or “making it enjoyable to all.”
I remember the first time I was told damn (or dang) was a swear. In my younger days I had decided instead of using the F bomb that I would use damn or dang. It wasn’t until I was about 24 that I was told that damn is a swear too. When I use the word it is considered damning someone to hell, which is evil, which is a swear. Guess what world everyword can be taken offensively.
Damning someone to hell might be evil, assuming doing so had any impact on their final destination, and that there really is a hell for them to go to.
And how bad does it sound to say “darned to heck” in place of “damned to hell?” :)
Haha! “Darned to heck”. The purpose of language is to convey thoughts, ideas or what ever is on your mind, so saying ‘darned to heck’ essentially means the same as ‘damned to hell’ but you sound like a loser and lose all credibility once you say it. :)