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Let’s put this straight, I don’t want to offend anyone but it is just what’s happening around us. We are all very-so familiar with the F-word, S-word and whatever that has relations with hell and its damnation. How many of us remember passing a day without speaking or hearing any of such word in our daily routine?

I recently watched a video clip on YouTube that promotes the use of the F-language. Instead of feeling entertained by the usage of such a language, I was upset by its reality. Most of us, especially the “Millennial” generation, think that such vulgarity is just something that happens in life. In fact, many would ask me to just “get over it.”

I am not offended, but I just couldn’t accept how these words can even be seen as a norm. Even heart breaking is that one said it could even be seen as a form of art. I’ve once heard a professor in a theatre class using these words for expressions. In my opinion, these terms did not bring any praiseworthy effects. Instead, it brings shame to a person who uses it.

The F-terminology is so often used to expressed anger or disagreement, the YouTube clip said. I just don’t see how this terminology could help with any situation. Taking for example: if one was very angry over another person, a “go F*** yourself” would not resolve the situation very much.

You get what I mean? With almost everyone using these words in our society right now, even toddlers would pick them up and use them as they learn their conversation. I couldn’t foresee how our world would be in the future if these F’s are growing to be a norm in our culture.

Be it noun (fish), verb (fishing), adjective (fishy), adverb (fishing-) or any parts of speech, the F-terminology has become recklessly dominant. One day, I think no one would be surprised to see in our Constitution (Amendment XXXX) that reads “No individual shall f***ing commit any language offense without due process of law…”

We are what we do or say. People value one another by observing their behaviors including their speech. Employing vulgarity in our speech puts down our reputation before others. Why don’t we use any of those F-words when it comes to interviews? It is simple: we knew it very well that these terms downgrade our status. Then why do we use them when our superior wasn’t around? Haven’t we trashed our integrity?

In short, I personally oppose the use of this indecorous lingo. Finally, let’s take one of the greatest and infamous quotes that playwright Shakespeare has ever written, and turns it into our F-terms: “O, Romeo, Romeo, where f**king art thou Romeo?

O well, it doesn’t seem very artistic after all. 

Jason Tham/Columnist 
University Chronicle