Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 22, 2015
March 21, 2015
March 23, 2015
Transcript:
Frazz: She sent you to me? I don't have a problem with supposedly naughty words. They're just another arrangement of vowels and consonants. The only way they're offensive is if the listener decides they're offensive. So in essence cursing in relinquishing control, which is the opposite of offensive. Mr. Spaetzle: Do you actually believe Frazz is going to scold anybody for that? Mrs. Olsen: No, but he'll take the fun out of it.
Remember the lady who got into trouble for using the word “niggard”. People lost their minds. It never occurred to the m that THEY were misinterpreting what she had said-a word with Scandinavian roots that mean stingy, & NOT one that was derived by mangling the Spanish word for black & morphing it into an epithet of hatred.