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Forty years ago, if enough of us got together and decided the word Glob was a swear and invented a 'rude' meaning for it, it would be lumped in with the rest of modern swear words. I doubt it could be done today, as society on the whole seems to be edging away from the bad word stigmas. Words are just words, have always been words, and nothing more. Peoples intentions and the way they take things are the problem.
At five years old, while playing hide and seek, I ran around the corner, saw my mom, and asked "where the fuck did that girl go?". I wasn't beaten, I wasn't punished. Later that day my folks explained to me that words like that are not exceptable in most social situations, but that there was nothing inherently wrong with them.
The net result? Without the taboo attached to them, I didn't swear to swear as a child. I didn't find it so amusing when others did (you know the age). In adulthood, I don't become offended at things or people because of the language they use, I don't say fuck as every other word in every sentance, and I exist in a world where personaly, for all intents and purposes, there are no such things as 'bad words'. I'm a healthier individual because of it, I'm certain.
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" ' Big Mouth.
Remember it took three of you to kill me.
A god, a boy, and, last and least, a hero.' "
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