Re:A privacy war is raging inside the W3C
by coldtea on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:08AM
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>Vulgarity was is descended from the inappropriate use of existing sacred words. It evolved into a comparative tone device. But it was always a cheap trick (just like the magic words it corrupted).
No, that's a puritan misconception.
Not only is a powerful (and culturally significant) method (as opposed to some mere trick), it also has evolutionary and psysiological benefits.
Among tons of other things:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoalgesic_effect_of_swearing
Re:A privacy war is raging inside the W3C
by denton-scratch on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:08AM
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> inappropriate use of existing sacred words.
You're thinking of blasphemy. "Vulgar" means "coarse" or "unrefined". It used to mean "concerning the common language", i.e. as spoken by ordinary people; not the literary language, or the legal language, or the clerical language.
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That report doesn't say what you want it to.
"Honesty" is not necessarily reality. Someone who is moved to high expressiveness is plausibly sincere, but they are not necessarily rational, reasonable, or correct.
Appealing to emotion works but it is still a cheap trick. If that's what we do here nowadays, well OK, but it's a loss.