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Feedback from May 15 and Beyond
Swear It In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker suggests that the very essence of language is warning. From the first grunts of our ancestors, words became tools to...
Swear It In The Better Angels of Our Nature , Steven Pinker suggests that the very essence of language is warning. From the first grunts of our ancestors, words became tools to signal threats, convey dangers and bind groups together through a shared understanding.
John McWhorter, in Words on the Move , takes it further: even the vilest of profanities have their place. They are not random outbursts of vulgarity, but finely honed expressions of intensity. Still, both miss the deeper point. Profanity is not just a linguistic tool—it is the admission of language's failure.
Kierkegaard once termed…
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