As a former teacher of young people, I know we failed in one sense. We’ve surrendered to the ‘French’.

The kids we used to babysit, errr ‘instruct’, and set a good example by using perfect English speaking it, writing it and yes, demonstrating it in class has been greatly abused, even murdered by the ridiculous foreign language the next generation of entrepreneurs, entertainers, and artists. English has lost yes, the @#$%^&*() French has won!

Now if you think I’m talking about the actual country of France, uh uh. It’s the other French, the careless uttering of words by a loose tongue, the cussing of so many of our younger people and your kids. However, they learned their masterful art of the gutter mouth by guess who? US! Yes, they learned it from us, the present older generation of Baby Boomers and dissatisfied Generation X’ers who also have an open policy with the tongue. The Bible refers to our one little instrument as powerful enough to start a fire. We also know it has been known to start much, much more including wars physical and mental. So when these youngsters grow up hearing the laughter of a few cuss words knowing how ‘cool’ it is, who can blame them?  If you own a computer and watch the million videos on You Tube, you’ll realize the online inferno set ablaze by youngsters who my elders would say ‘need to get slapped’.

I’m watching a few videos with young ladies cramming every four, five and even six letter words in their presentation. I can imagine if parents didn’t go to jail for whupping their child, how many of them would sneak up on these girls and either scream to the top of their lungs or pop them upside the head for their profuse use of the ‘French’.

I understand I run the risk of being named by the younger crowd reading this as a, you know…. HATER! Well I have one thing to say to that……

Please get over yourselves! Who…are…you? I mean really…WHO ARE YOU? 

Let me for a minute try as best I can to bring a bit of ‘the real’ into this discussion for you younger folks out there. We live in a society where words are treasured and valued. Now I know there are certain literary genres and film genres that use the language freely. I understand you may have grown up with elders who cussed and didn’t care who heard it. Believe me, I grew up around individuals like that and I’m not perfect either. I have spewed some vile ‘French’ in my time but I knew when to shut it off. You have to do the same thing if you’re going far in this world.

People of my time grew up with Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Millie Jackson, and watched the Black films at the drive ins when you could hear cussing every five minutes. However, we didn’t grow up with an attitude calling everyone who didn’t like us ‘haters’. We had parents who didn’t hesitate using the leather to steer us in the right direction and before the government spoiled you, the method of our parents going straight hardcore worked. Well maybe for a few it didn’t, but that’s beside the point. As one of my elders would attest, if you’re in this American society, you have to use the Kings English to get the best opportunities as far as a job, financial mobility, all that.

 The point of this is that someday you have to use more English and less French if you want to advance in this world. There is still an element that insists you speak clearly, plainly and cleanly in order to be noticed among your peers. Of course you can be ‘real’ all you want and continue in your ‘French’ but let’s be ‘realistic’ and see that cussing as your first language wouldn’t make anyone proud, including the ones who brought you in this world and cared for you while you were trying to figure this life thing out. So in other words, learn to tone it down if you can. Believe me again, it’s not going to hurt and that soul inside you will feel a lot more refreshed that you did.

As for the actual French, sorry for the confusion you no-good M- F-! (scroll below)

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