Atlantic obscenities

[flexagon]

Greetings from vacation-land! Yes, I am taking this week off, and not going anywhere farther than the occasional coffee shop... and for the moment I'm not going to post about that other modality that exists before and after vacation.

I may have to subscribe to the Atlantic. I bought a copy on Sunday, partly on a whim, and partly so that the bookstore would get something out of my sitting on the floor for 60+ minutes shamelessly reading The Graveyard Book. People, that is one smart magazine. I'm not even done with it yet and there have been several articles that have really impressed me; one on transgender children and one on the multiplicity of selves in normal people especially. But there was one article on obscenity and language that gave me a whole new adjective. I quote:

Fuck-peppered speech gets tedious, and malicious epithets can express condemnable attitudes.

Fuck-peppered? Hmm.

FUCK-PEPPERED!

Have you heard that term before? I, personally, can think of several fuck-peppered things in my life, and it's obvious what they are: systems or entities that are riddled throughout with small sprinkles of fuckedness that unavoidably permeate the whole. Clearly it can be applied to oh-so-many things beyond conversations. Let's take this one and use it.

Comments

[webrat.livejournal.com]

Fuck-peppered. I like it. :)

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

I like Fuck-peppered, too. I used to have a dean who liked to holler "FUCK!" periodically at work. It bothered the office manager, but she never seems to mind when our current dean wields fuck-peppered diatribes of whiny-ness.

A staycation! Very trendy! I hope you get to do all kinds of fun stuff.

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how's the weather in vacation-land? :-)

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the Atlantic! Favorite magazine, aside from Psychology Today.

Fuck-peppered is a beautiful phrase...similar to cluster-fuck (which is one of my all-time favorites thanks to the nice phonetics along with amusing mental imagery).