Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose…
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(From almost twenty fucking years ago…)
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Listen, here's the point we constantly find ourselves having to explain: swears, like *all* words, convey several layers of meaning which *cannot be conveyed* by the use of other words. This is easily illustrated: if we say that Jim is a jerk and John is a motherfucking cocksucker, you can readily understand the not-so-subtle difference in our opinions of Jim and John. It is a simple fact of the English language — and, in fact, language in general — that approximate or even exact synonyms, through common usage, take on their own uniquely varying flavors which entirely color our perceptions of phrases that contain those words. We're talking about *all* words, here; it's the same story if we say that Dapper Dan in the fourth race at Preakness is "excellent," while Goes The Mile in the second is "magnificent" — again, there is a *difference* that is conveyed by the use of the two different words. The difference *itself* may be interpreted differently by different listeners, depending on their own past experience with such words, but it's clearly *there*.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreihhdlqzyb7joevkzjnzldjiom5yheajbobdbn3jpankrqjz3pap5y)
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“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jnwhlckbw7xogdsrmmibmbrj/bafkreif2mshdwy5umoz67zzoc2nkwgwyrrmlkhxhint7htnuuqvnf2lwbm)
