Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Vowel Discrimination and Consonantism

Vowels should be offended. And if they're not, someone should be offended in their behalf. Why is it that certain words -- ones ordinarily considered vulgar or taboo -- are used with the vowels entirely omitted from the word? For example: Sh*t. We've all seen this: A string of characters representing a 4-letter word whose meaning is synonymous with the following:

Cr*p
P**p
D**kie
C*-c*
P**-p**

Given the fact that these words are sometimes considered unacceptable in their standard form, i.e. fully spelled out, what does that say of the vowels that have been omitted? "Crap" is considered an offensive word in certain contexts. How does one improve it? Apparently by omitting the vowel and typing "cr*p."

Why drop the vowel from the group of letters? How does that make the vowel feel to be considered something omissible in order to improve the group? Such a blatant public repudiation of an otherwise important letter seems completely unwarranted, especially considering that some vowels make words all by themselves, without the help of consonants! What's so offensive about the vowel? Why must the vowel be the pariah? Who will speak for the victimized and ostracized vowel? Who will give the marginalized vowel a voice?

I suggest that we henceforth cease from dropping the vowels when we use vulgar or offensive words. From now on, let's drop the *u**i** consonants! That's right, *i** on them. I don't give a **i* about how the consonants feel about it. *e** yeah! Let's hear it for Vowel Power! *e** no! We won't go! *e** no! We won't go!

~fin~

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