J’s Law. The linguistic phenomenon also known as the Beavis and Butt-Head principle.
What do these words have in common?
Donkey
Rooster
Cat
Embankment
Exuberant
Strange
Sober
Patio door
Siphon
Viennese
Richard
Hillock
Burrow
Bump
Stumped?
How about THESE words:
Ass
Cock
Pussy
Dyke
Gay
Queer
Straight
Back door
Suck
Wiener
Dick
Hump
Penetrate
Butt
I bet you can think of something in common for those. They’re the same meanings as above, you sick pervert. Yes. That, my friends, is J’s Law. The law states:
Should any word have two meanings, one of which is prurient, sexual, or scatological, that meaning will overtake the other neutral, innocuous, or practical meaning, eventually rendering the word useless for polite conversation.
Hence, any word that shares its spelling and/or pronunciation with a dirty word is doomed to become hopelessly dirty itself. Isn’t that sad?
October 18, 2009 at 10:44 am
It is the same principle as if you were to take a lighter and burn your flesh..it only takes a second to destroy but it takes weeks, months, or even years to heal if it ever fully heals at all. Everything in nature tends toward disorder/entropy especially the lazier minds of humanity….a decrease in thought and an increase in inefficiaency and disorder/dispersion.