Shit does still reign supreme though -- get your shit together, what is this shit, I packed my shit, I ate some shit, I worked on some shit, he said some shit.
Fuck is a runner-up to shit -- fuck that fucking fuck, he's fucked, I fucking know it.
Then there is "cuck." That's seems the modern day derogatory term of choice.
If you use all four words you could probably get through most conversations. What the fuck is that? Oh, it's just some shit. That slop is everywhere. Well, fuck me, that cuck slop is some shit.
Who needs the 850-word vocabulary of BASIC English when probably 100 words will do. Maybe even less.
I pine for the days when I wrote an article in a national magazine in which I wrote that something was a meretricious chimera and that someone had a dolorous mien. And my editor did not raise an eyebrow nor did any reader complain. Hah!
Yeah, yeah. I know that a good writer doesn't use sesquipedalian words because her goal is to be understood, not to show off her erudition. Never use a three-syllable word when a two-syllable word will do, and never use a two-syllable word when a one-syllable word will do. And use the Anglo-Saxon word whenever possible.
Actually, I strive to write so that anyone with a sixth grade education will have no trouble understanding me and can cruise through my writing just as if he were having a conversation with a friend over lunch. Imagine if you were sitting by a window wolfing down a double bacon cheese burger and your pal pointed out a guy walking by and said he had a dolorous mien. You'd swallow and say, huh? Well, I don't want some cuck reading my fucking slop to go "Huh?" Shit on that.
