Thursday, April 3, 2008

The cracks of our cracks....


Apparently there is a divide that I did not know about, between "ass" and "butt." I am not entirely sure why, but according to this video clip, "ass is not a nice word" and one should "say 'kick their butt' instead."

I guess I am not so naive as to think that in this day and age, we could all just agree that words are not, in and of themselves "bad" or "good" (although I would like it if we could!) but when did that line, the one between "ass" and "butt" crop up?

Wouldn't you have thought "butt" was the dirtier word?


I guess when I teach my kid to say "Kick their asses" (which I will, regardless of the grammatical problem with using the plural "their" as a placeholder for "his or her" -- their is just easier to say) I'll be getting flack from the other mommies.

C'est la ass kicking vie!

1 comment:

Alexis Yael said...

Yeah, ditto.

I told you (in that post?) that Remy has probably been saying "shit" for awhile, yes? I can't tell b/c of the slurring of the end, but I'm pretty sure. I don't make a big deal out of it, it is just a word.