{"id":1907,"date":"2005-01-26T19:38:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T00:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2005-01-26T19:40:22","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T00:40:22","slug":"the-disappearance-of-damn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/01\/the-disappearance-of-damn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disappearance of “Damn”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Should I have written that? Christine Hurt, my co-blogger at Conglomerate<\/a> has begun to chronicle the disappearance of the word “damn” from several commercial ventures. See here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Apparently, it is a naughty word.<\/p>\n

Aside from this post, I don’t use the word “damn” outside of a Gospel context. Same with “hell.” Maybe because I have the vague suspicion that they are gateway profanities. In any event, I don’t feel strongly about them being bad words. Indeed, I am much more put off by Mormon expletives, like “flip” and “fetch.”<\/a> So I join Christine in wondering: “have these people ever watched network television? I once watched Everybody Loves Raymond<\/em> with my parents and was frozen with shame at two words that we never would have said in our house! And now with Katie Couric exposing middle school sex, I think we have enough to worry about.”<\/p>\n

P.S. Writing this post reminded me of another muddled missionary metaphor<\/a>. While teaching a lesson in German, my recently arrived companion attempted to explain the concept of damnation by reference to a dam. Just as a “dam” stops the flow of water, so “damnation” stops the flow of eternal life. Or something. The key was the correspondence of “damn” and “dam” in English. Somehow, comparing Verdammt!<\/em> and Stauanlage<\/em> didn’t have the same effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Should I have written that? Christine Hurt, my co-blogger at Conglomerate has begun to chronicle the disappearance of the word “damn” from several commercial ventures. See here and here. Apparently, it is a naughty word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}