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Do we have a lot of negative/derogatory terms that solely mean & #39;bad& #39;? Like they& #39;re not attached in some way to descriptors or traits that aren& #39;t necessarily/exactly & #39;bad& #39;?
Off the top of my head, any expression of negativity also carries with it an inherent add& #39;tl judgement
Off the top of my head, any expression of negativity also carries with it an inherent add& #39;tl judgement
even our tamer words like & #39;suck& #39; (a penis) or & #39;lame& #39; (like a broken leg) or crap (doodoo feces) carry extra stuff along with them, and their usage is an affirmation that "we as a society see these attributes as negative"
and if we want to be more conscious/change which values we judge to be & #39;bad& #39;, it& #39;s probably fair to look at the verbiage used to express negativity in the first place
but what if I don& #39;t want to imply any value judgements? do I have to use a phrase as unwieldy and flaccid as "I do not like this"?
Is there not a good vocabulary for people that want to perfectly straddle every value fence out there but still want to forcefully yet elegantly express their distaste for something?
But then part of the human experience is having opinions about stuff, and like it or not, a lot of those opinions are negative. So then maybe I& #39;m just complaining about not having a good vocabulary for my specific set of beliefs.
In the end, some words are so ingrained into our language that they, for most intents and purposes, lose their secondary meanings. For example, the word & #39;bad& #39; itself, which is speculated to come from an old English word describing an effeminate man.
But it& #39;s not fucking pragmatic to say oh we can just wait (and that long too) until that word doesn& #39;t mean what it does right now. So what do I say when I wanna say something is bad?
"Wow, that& #39;s fascist" doesn& #39;t really seem appropriate when someone says they had a bad day.
"Wow, that& #39;s fascist" doesn& #39;t really seem appropriate when someone says they had a bad day.
Oh well, at least there& #39;ll always be sarcasm.
And all the other great words that everyone else thought of 
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