Hey you! Yeah, you great piece of s--t. Who me? Yeah, f--k you! Time has changed so much that even to berate someone with a truly memorable language is difficult to people now days. Today this kind of language is used all over America. People think that by insulting others with boorish words they are going to make others feel bad. It can be seen the constant use of these words in today's society.
Anger could be considered one of the main factors when wounding somebody. The more anger people have in there system the more insulting they are going to be. Now days people uses a stronger language to insult, but does this insult really affects the people being insulted. In the early times verbal abuse where said in a memorable language and people often got more affected by them. Society needs to get back to that etiquette which was used in the old times; a use of a good English to offend someone.
A great example of a language used to berate someone it is shown in the poem by James Stephens "A Glass of Beer". In this poem a drunken man insults a woman in a very distinct and subtle way. "That parboiled ape", it is a very knowledgeable and not ruthless way to say many things to her. Probably this drunken guy just wants to be with the women, but she would not give him a chance. In the result he calls her a parboiled ape, which could be a way of insulting and at the same time asking her for a chance.
Offensive use of language it is used now days, most of the time, with known people. For example if a man passes you in a line, the reaction which most people would have is that they would give them a bad look and say something like: "Hey you passed". If the person is known person the use of bad language would probably come into play or a jeer.
The truth of the lost art of insulting someone with memorable language is mostly because of the great change in lifestyle. Cultures have changed drastically during t...