Good, Bad, and Wrong Words

Good, Bad, and Wrong Words
On the face of it one word is as good as another, providing it states what is meant correctly. It is little more than Saxon-Norman history that we say cafe or restaurant, rather than something like eatery. And there is far more to words than clinical accuracy. There is romance, passion, and raw violence. Some terms are purely clinical, such as coitus. Rather more feeling is the word intercourse. Making love is romantic. And who has heard a youth, when annoyed, say 'coitus off'. They say f*** off! Why? Because it is plain Anglo-Saxon, raw, violent, and without a trace of romance. It is term that denotes rape rather than any good feelings. It is meant to be vulgar, violent, and nasty, and so it is made to be. Therefore, if any ordinary newspaper or book, read by all and sundry including children, should not contain any, or more than a few such terms. It debases language, and reduces it to unfeeling banality.