April 2019 Open Post

   April 24, 2019
   April 24, 2019
   John Michael Greer
   481 Comments

   This week's Ecosophian  offering is the monthly (well, more  or less!) open
   post to field questions and encourage  discussion among my readers. All the
   standard rules  apply -  no profanity,  no sales  pitches, no  trolling, no
   rudeness, no long  screeds proclaiming the infallible truth of  fill in the
   blank - but since there's no topic, nothing is off topic.

   As we proceed this week, I'd like to  ask the assistance of my readers on a
   small but, I hope, useful project.  The issue of this blog's prohibition on
   profanity was  raised yet again  over the last month,  and it occurs  to me
   that a list  of helpful alternatives would be worth  compiling, and putting
   in this  website's files section.  For some  years now, the  words "frack,"
   "shale," and "borehole" have been standard usage on my blogs, and fine bits
   of hot language they are; such  solid terms for nonsense as "malarkey" have
   also seen some  use - but there's a  lot more where those came  from, and I
   think it's time we  gave a boost to the use  of more interesting invective.
   After all, if you call someone "a sniveling sanctimonious nincompoop with a
   brain that would  gag a maggot" -  just to pull out the  first example that
   comes to mind! - I suspect  they'll know they've been insulted, despite the
   lack of obscene language...

   So  help me  out here.  What are  your favorite  bits of  non-profane salty
   language?

   With that said, have at it!