Is It Just Me?

I’m afraid that also media is to be blamed for the remarkable increasement of dull language in modern society. At least to me it seems that meanwhile you can’t read two books without stumbling upon at least one swearingword. Why is that? I understand that swearingwords are an impressive stylistic device of showing how angry the protagonist really is, but can’t the author just say something like “Angrily he cursed this circumstance!” or would it be less impressive if he or she shouted for example “Oh my gosh!” instead of…”Oh my f… gosh!”? Also I consider it to be a very impressive stylistic device when the author describes a characters anger by describing that he “banged his fist on the table”, “kicked the next piece of furniture that lay on his way” or…what I personally like most: when the author describes this person’s angry facial expression. I like that, because then for me this becomes something like a movie…I see this person, dranged in anger right in my mind’s eye and when I go on reading I see the action this person takes…His facial expression still isn’t able to hide this strong emotion!
However as I indicated before books like these are very hard to get nowday’s. Thus I give people who also have a problem with swearingwords the piece of advice of either sticking to literature for young people – that so far doesn’t contain too much bad language – or books of elder authors who lived one century or more ago, because back then swearing wasn’t such a big issue…After all people back then would have scolded you for using bad language.

However there actually is no need to feel seriously offended if there’s someone annoying you in here: I already met several people (not an alusion to anybody in particular) who started getting so insulting, childish or vulgar that I wondered if the person talking to me there is suffering from some kind of mental sickness! Not exaggerated! I mean it: Sometimes I really wondered and who knows-maybe I was right. After all you don’t really know much about the person you meet in here.

If there’s someone bugging you in here you may find the link “http://www.englishbaby.com/forum/LifeTalk/thread/411183” useful. It’s a forum about what to do in this case.

Just a few days ago I’ve talked to someone about the bad behaviour of some people in several chats and he told me he wondered how these people wanted to be taken serious when they start swearing and cursing towards users they don’t even really know-without a real provocation-or by bringing up the subject sex as soon as they meet a member of the opposite gender.

Thank you! Alas these books aren’t available in Germany (as far as I know). On the other hand I found an article about the content of the first book you mentioned (including several quotes) on a website. Thank you! It seems to be a very good book.