Swearing

[Rose65]

I don't use bad language and I won't tolerate it around me. I especially find the F word threatening. My husband has never sworn in my presence. We are of an era where we believe men can do as they wish in male company but never around the ladies and children.

Yet swear words are rather absurd and often meaningless really. It's a curious thing.

I must add that I find the usage of the name of Jesus as a curse word particularly offensive. I wonder why people think it's ok.

 

[hollydolly]

I kinda think that any word an be used as a swear word if it's used often enough...and that's what I think about the F word..it's just a word that came to mean high frustration etc... I rarely ever say that word.. but I do say Feck.. sometimes...

I cannot stand the C word.. despite my views on how curse words came to be , I feel the C word is particularly offensive.

I do swear but not hard swear words.. for example.. I will say Sugar a lot.. instead of Sh**... and Blood and Sand is a phrase I use when I'm really irritated ... but believe me I can swear like a Navvy if I want to... I just don't find it particularly clever to do so...

My mother used to say.. ''If you can't speak without using an offensive word then don't speak''..

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I speak however I like and refuse to be guilted out by what’s considered ‘normal.’ If it’s ‘normal’ then I don’t wanna do it. Since I’m on my own most of the time I actually enjoy cursing now and again and refuse to apologize for it. I’m not hurting anyone. It’s a stress release for me.

 

[Jules]

I cannot stand the C word.. despite my views on how curse words came to be , I feel the C word is particularly offensive.

In this age of political correctness, this used to just be used about a woman, now it’s against a man too.

It doesn’t bother me if the odd word is sprinkled in. Some comedians use so many in the first few minutes, I have to turn them off. Why don’t they notice that the most popular comedians rarely swear.

 

[oldaunt]

People swear because they don't really know any real words, is what I was taught. Seems to run fairly true.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

People swear because they don't really know any real words, is what I was taught. Seems to run fairly true.

Not true.

 

[Balzac]

Some will think this thread is a complete load of . Pah! Just ignore them

 

[Rose65]

In this age of political correctness, this used to just be used about a woman, now it’s against a man too.

It doesn’t bother me if the odd word is sprinkled in. Some comedians use so many in the first few minutes, I have to turn them off. Why don’t they notice that the most popular comedians rarely swear.

I really dislike comedians who seem to rely heavily on just the F word, the audience also finds it hilarious. But it's not clever.

I prefer the likes of Peter Kay, clean and very very funny.

 

[Myrtle]

I don't use them anymore. Between having had a husband who never used them and raising 3 children I broke myself of the habit and that's what it is, just a habit. I do believe that conversation sounds more intelligent without them.

On the other hand, I still have a few friends who do swear. I'm not the language police. I don't correct people.

 

[Naturally]

A slip now and then in the face of a polarizing event or sudden, strong emotional swing, I'm okay with.
Those who use "cuss" words in the course of normal everyday conversation, I try to avoid.
DISCLAIMER: I was a sailor for 20yrs and known to use sentence enhancers from time to time.

 

[Murrmurr]

People swear because they don't really know any real words, is what I was taught. Seems to run fairly true.

That is a wholly fallacious myth....pardon my French.

 

[Gaer]

I didn't know I even KNEW any swear words until I installed a double cast iron sink! Woo-Hoo!

 

[Alligatorob]

I swear some, probably too much for some people, but not so much as many of my friends. Seems to me its just part of our language.

pardon my French.

My mother rarely swore, but when she did she'd always follow it with "pardon my French", never understood that.

I cannot stand the C word.. despite my views on how curse words came to be , I feel the C word is particularly offensive.

Don't use that one, or any that are derogatory towards people or groups of people. We have plenty to choose from without.

 

[Murrmurr]

My mother rarely swore, but when she did she'd always follow it with "pardon my French", never understood that.

It was probably a way to say "I wasn't actually swearing; those were nice words, but in a foreign language." Jokingly, of course.

 

[hollydolly]

I swear some, probably too much for some people, but not so much as many of my friends. Seems to me its just part of our language.

My mother rarely swore, but when she did she'd always follow it with "pardon my French", never understood that.

Don't use that one, or any that are derogatory towards people or groups of people. We have plenty to choose from without.

Yes that's a very common phrase to hear when people swear..who wouldn't usually....

I never heard my mother swear... ever... ... and my father who was a horrible bully.. and all round nasty piece of work and local hardman .. only swore once in my presence.. dunno what he was swearing about.. but he said the F word, and all of us kids nearly fell down..

 

[Old Salt]

I got immune to most swear words because one can't watch a show (especially stand-up comedy) or movie nowadays without an excessive amount of words that were considered filthy in my day! I used to swear like a ... well ... sailor, but when we got home from the sea, our ladies never heard an offensive word coming out of our mouths. It just wasn't done!

One word I can't abide to this day and I cringe in disgust every time I hear it, and that is to hear a woman being called a b...h!

 

[hollydolly]

I got immune to most swear words because one can't watch a show (especially stand-up comedy) or movie nowadays without an excessive amount of words that were considered filthy in my day! I used to swear like a ... well ... sailor, but when we got home from the sea, our ladies never heard an offensive word coming out of our mouths. It just wasn't done!

One word I can't abide to this day and I cringe in disgust every time I hear it, and that is to hear a woman called a b...h!

I think that's the least offensive swear word..in fact I don't even think of it as a swear word..

 

[Raven]

I try never to use foul language, unless I hit my thumb with a hammer
and then I probably would.
What bothers me is swearing and bad words in books.
I love to read and always have a book near but some are filled with the f word and other
foul words that to me just ruins the story and the book.
I have thrown a few books in the garbage because of the horrible words used.
Foul language does not improve a book.
I wonder why some authors think it does?

 

[Gary O']

Some of my friends use the eff word as an adverb in front of every noun and adjective

'This effing chisel is effing dull'

I get callous to it
Don't even hear it anymore

When I'm alone?
Don't ask

 

[Naturally]

 

[dobielvr]

I use the F word when I'm describing the rats in my attic, to whomever/whoever is listening.

 

[Hopeful1]

@Raven I am the same way about books. Just this morning I returned a book to the library because of the poor language mixed in with a “would have been good book”

@Gary O' My brother was just like your friends language. But my brother would use it in a funny way and I would bust out laughing.
He would get us both in trouble for that
I adored my brother

 

[Chet]

I swear to myself but I avoid it publicly. It's really just a lazy way to make a point.

 

[jet]

i use the f word a lot,but in a nice way,its the way the worlde is changing,they are only swear words because the victorians said they where,
whos to say they were right?

 

[Old Salt]

I think that's the least offensive swear word..in fact I don't even think of it as a swear word..

Maybe different cultures? One word I hear quite frequently in British amd Australian shows is the C word! It seems to be far less offensive in the U.K. as it is in Canada!