Re: Different words for death
My theory is that the longer someone has lived in the West, the more de-sensitized (immune) they get to this thing.
They sort of become teeter-baTair. One second you put on one hat and the next second the other.
You may know inside that you are engaging in indecent conversation but you say, what the heck, who cares, everybody is doing it, might as well have some fun.
However this becomes a slippery slope very quickly.
There are people who sometimes wear their religion on their sleeve, talking about praying and punctuating their speech with
insha’Allah and masha’Allah and then utter lm*ao a few minutes later without a second thought. And this is a very mild example.
Very confused lot, I think. And the FB and online forums culture have magnified this problem a whole lot.
Oh well. Just my pet-peeve.