It is the one thing most everyone won’t give, and the one thing most everyone shall have. Since, then, it is appropriate to so much, its use can’t help be apropos.
only God has the power to damn someone or something, so saying damn is also putting yourself on a rather high pedestal.
in what context do you use ‘damn’ then?
“damn it?”
I think you are talking, not about condemning in general (which you must admit anyone can do who pleases), but about condemning someone to hell (which, as you’ve sagely observed, no one but God can do).
And I will use it in whatever context I can, if I can remember to. The four-decade-old brain is not as resilient to new habits as younger brains, I am sorry to say.
it’s not your business to condemn. what good does that do anyone?
just because anyone who pleases can do it doesn’t make it right or good.
you aren’t 40.
And let us have a little word-lesson based on that. What you’ve said is short for (as any reader of Victorian literature knows) “so damnably annoying”. This, in turn, is synonymous with (both are the same Latin) “so condemnably annoying”. What does it mean for something to be condemnably annoying? It means that its annoyance is such that the speaker or others can condemn it.
But you and your bright young mind have taken my wry Note far beyond the modest bounds for which it was intended.
but see? damn can only ever be used to tear people down, not build them up. that’s not good or helpful.
but if i dared, damn would be the one word out of them all that i would use, too.
:)
Let me guess. This is the usual conservative rigamarole: “We must not do that.” — “But why not?” — “Because then people will think we are the sort to do that.”
When I was your age, I, with the help of a brother, constructed this complicated oath:
“I refuse to donate a small-time-repairman’s water-obstacle.”
If you cannot tell, this is synonymous with: “I don’t give a tinker’s damn.”
This was part of a whole hobby of ours. Another example is this: Our father would occasionally lose his temper with particularly riotous dinner-table discussions, and shout: “I have had it!” My brother and I then began at intervals offering this:
oh, those are great.
:D
my mom says that.
my siblings and i have come up with similar mockeries. thankfully, at least one of the parents is usually amused.
Well when I say “riotous” I mean as riotous as a mouse’s naptime. We children almost whispered, even if we did it very rapidly and sarcastically, and this quietness is one reason Dad became so frustrated. He is a hardy man with a robust voice and he thought his sons were turning out to be effete and useless. But all it was is that — we were homeschooled. :) When siblings spend all their time together and with no one else, they can communicate by glances if necessary. And, too, they are very shy.
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It is the one thing most everyone won’t give, and the one thing most everyone shall have. Since, then, it is appropriate to so much, its use can’t help be apropos.
Thorough consideration of all things!
you are silly.
just because most people shall have it doesn’t mean you should wish it on them, and that’s what you’re doing by saying it.
Am I!
I think I am not. If I were to say “God damn you” to someone, then I would be.
Yet remember: “Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? I hate them with perfect hatred.”
only God has the power to damn someone or something, so saying damn is also putting yourself on a rather high pedestal.
in what context do you use ‘damn’ then?
“damn it?”
I think you are talking, not about condemning in general (which you must admit anyone can do who pleases), but about condemning someone to hell (which, as you’ve sagely observed, no one but God can do).
And I will use it in whatever context I can, if I can remember to. The four-decade-old brain is not as resilient to new habits as younger brains, I am sorry to say.
it’s not your business to condemn. what good does that do anyone?
just because anyone who pleases can do it doesn’t make it right or good.
you aren’t 40.
Your comments are always welcome, miss.
you are so damn annoying sometimes.
And let us have a little word-lesson based on that. What you’ve said is short for (as any reader of Victorian literature knows) “so damnably annoying”. This, in turn, is synonymous with (both are the same Latin) “so condemnably annoying”. What does it mean for something to be condemnably annoying? It means that its annoyance is such that the speaker or others can condemn it.
But you and your bright young mind have taken my wry Note far beyond the modest bounds for which it was intended.
but see? damn can only ever be used to tear people down, not build them up. that’s not good or helpful.
but if i dared, damn would be the one word out of them all that i would use, too.
:)
Of what are you afraid?
of hurting people or misleading them.
Let me guess. This is the usual conservative rigamarole: “We must not do that.” — “But why not?” — “Because then people will think we are the sort to do that.”
When I was your age, I, with the help of a brother, constructed this complicated oath:
“I refuse to donate a small-time-repairman’s water-obstacle.”
If you cannot tell, this is synonymous with: “I don’t give a tinker’s damn.”
This was part of a whole hobby of ours. Another example is this: Our father would occasionally lose his temper with particularly riotous dinner-table discussions, and shout: “I have had it!” My brother and I then began at intervals offering this:
“I announce previous ownership!”
oh, those are great.
:D
my mom says that.
my siblings and i have come up with similar mockeries. thankfully, at least one of the parents is usually amused.
Well when I say “riotous” I mean as riotous as a mouse’s naptime. We children almost whispered, even if we did it very rapidly and sarcastically, and this quietness is one reason Dad became so frustrated. He is a hardy man with a robust voice and he thought his sons were turning out to be effete and useless. But all it was is that — we were homeschooled. :) When siblings spend all their time together and with no one else, they can communicate by glances if necessary. And, too, they are very shy.