Insulting is a waste of words that makes life worse

Eight out of ten Italians use insults in their daily speech. They say they're used to defend themselves, but that's not always true. Instead, let's look in the mirror and realize that insults make our lives worse.

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Aren't you tired of insults? They've forcefully entered our daily language, and we use them profusely, as if we were incapable of using any other language in times of displeasure. We insult because of an inconvenience or something that has disrupted our plans. We insult in the belief that this will make us stronger and more listened to. We insult because of weakness, fear, lack of self-esteem, and an inability to manage human relationships. In any case, we're wasting words and scattering poisonous pills along our life path.

USE OF INSULT

We have destroyed Italian, and this is a fact, by bending a wonderful language to a jargon of added swear words. We have promoted the insult through means of communicationEight out of ten Italians use it, perhaps to defend themselves, to justify themselves. In reality, this isn't always the case: often the first insult, the one that opens the sequence, comes from us, from our mouths and from our total lack of style.

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USE OF INSULT

I want to include all the mitigating factors within this waste. Anger, sometimes justified, perhaps by pure and simple injustice; indignation, which is still a feeling not to be underestimated; the rejection of people who, let's put it this way, deserve an insult, a "fuck you" as Beppe Grillo would say.

But net of the mitigating circumstances, what remains is what the greatest Italian linguist, Professor Tullio De Mauro, wrote in a text entitled Words to hurt, prepared for the «Commission on Intolerance, Xenophobia, Racism and the Phenomena of hate». Yes, because The step from insult to hatred is really very short, a matter of millimeters. Like insult to lack of communication (hence the waste of precious affection). Or insult to perpetual resentment.

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De Mauro says: "Words, including those used to hurt, are not abstract symbols. They don't just serve to indicate things and actions, but they also signal, perhaps without us realizing it, who we are who use them and how we position ourselves toward what we're talking about."

Here, then, is a key to escape from this infernal trap. We are the words we speak: therefore, a little more awareness would be enough to make us realise that Insulting disqualifies us, makes us worse, it puts us in a bad light, first and foremost, with ourselves. And perhaps it doesn't even touch the recipient of the words intended to hurt.

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