Do you swear?

I had a client who was 90 y/o. She lived in Southern California and was an icon in our industry who had arranged travel for big names like Bob Hope. She was an unassuming little old lady. I was going to meet with her, and I'd heard she had a friend in the industry in TX that she chatted with regularly. I tried to start a conversation by saying I understood she was a friend of ******'s. She said "Yes, we chat frequently but half the time I can't understand WTF she is saying". I had no idea what to say after that.
 
This British site on 50 swear words had me just laughing so hard I'm blowing my nose with teary eyes. Gets better the further and further down. ( Pray Matrix that doesn't execute me. :LOL: )

https://www.joe.co.uk/life/a-definitive-ranking-of-every-swear-word-from-worst-to-best-122544
snippets:

25. Shit
Let. Us. Challenge. Ourselves. To. Use. More. Inventive. Swear. Words. Shit just isn't cutting the mustard for me anymore, we can do better. The world has gone to shit, so let's not allow our vocabulary to do the same. Better words for shit include: turd, post-food, faeces, love package, and dump.

13. Twat
Or as the Americans say, *shudders*, twot. It's a decent swear word, especially if you really want to undermine someone without going the full monty and calling them the c-word. Twat is a lighter, more family friendly version of many insults that you can get away with if you don't particularly fancy being murdered.
 
My definition of swearing is to blaspheme, I hate that. Swearing as in the use of profanities, I can pepper my language with a profound word here and there. Where though did the f-bomb originate?

It can be argued that acronyms spawned the obscenity in question "Fornication Under Consent of the King" or the Irish favourite: "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge," though the modern-day phrase has been traced to a number of etymological origins: Middle Dutch, fokken, Germanic, ficken, English, firk, Scottish, fukkit. Even the Latin terms futuerre, to copulate, bear a striking resemblance to the four-letter word.
It was a Catholic priest who told me, in a most solemn way, that it was actually the acronym for the dispensing of justice when a guilty verdict was returned for the heinous crime of adultery, that being:
Found
Under
Carnal
Knowledge.
 
@Alligatorob mentioned people swearing more in the west (of North America). I've found that to be true also. Perfectly nice, respectable people of all ages swear here.

I'm still holding off though. On the rare occasion that I've tried to take the attitude of "everyone talks that way, so why not?" I've regretted it. For example, when I said I was so damn tired, and then found out that the person I was talking to was devoutly religious.

So I figure it's just safer not to.

Also, I associate the F-word with violence. I don't like to hear it, let alone say it.
 
David777 said:
This British site on 50 swear words had me just laughing so hard I'm blowing my nose with teary eyes. Gets better the further and further down. ( Pray Matrix that doesn't execute me. :LOL: )

https://www.joe.co.uk/life/a-definitive-ranking-of-every-swear-word-from-worst-to-best-122544
snippets:

25. Shit
Let. Us. Challenge. Ourselves. To. Use. More. Inventive. Swear. Words. Shit just isn't cutting the mustard for me anymore, we can do better. The world has gone to shit, so let's not allow our vocabulary to do the same. Better words for shit include: turd, post-food, faeces, love package, and dump.

13. Twat
Or as the Americans say, *shudders*, twot. It's a decent swear word, especially if you really want to undermine someone without going the full monty and calling them the c-word. Twat is a lighter, more family friendly version of many insults that you can get away with if you don't particularly fancy being murdered.
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The Brits outdo us with their use of the #1 word on that list. That one is still far too offensive for common use in the US--although with the increasing use of f*** it may not be for much longer.
 
Maybe an urban myth, but entertaining, anyway:
The origins of the word "shit" have long been clouded by urban legend. Granted, the urban legend is a good one, and people can't resist a good story. The story goes that back in the 1800s, cow pies were collected from the prairie to be used as fuel on ships during long voyages -- because they weighed less than various forms of liquid fuel (many of which hadn't been discovered/invented yet, in the case of gasoline). Of course, if the patties got wet they not only weighed more, but the process of fermentation began, methane would build up below decks, and, eventually, BOOM! So to avoid the boxes of cow pies getting wet and exploding, they had to be kept high up on the ship, away from the lower holds. Thus, they were stamped SHIP HIGH IN TRANSIT, which was eventually just shortened to SHIT.
 
win231 said:
Maybe an urban myth, but entertaining, anyway:
The origins of the word "shit" have long been clouded by urban legend. Granted, the urban legend is a good one, and people can't resist a good story. The story goes that back in the 1800s, cow pies were collected from the prairie to be used as fuel on ships during long voyages -- because they weighed less than various forms of liquid fuel (many of which hadn't been discovered/invented yet, in the case of gasoline). Of course, if the patties got wet they not only weighed more, but the process of fermentation began, methane would build up below decks, and, eventually, BOOM! So to avoid the boxes of cow pies getting wet and exploding, they had to be kept high up on the ship, away from the lower holds. Thus, they were stamped SHIP HIGH IN TRANSIT, which was eventually just shortened to SHIT.
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This is a great story indeed. It's not true of course. Shit has been with us, in written form at least, since at least the 14th century, and is derived from Old English, which had the noun scite, meaning dung.
 
Ronni said:
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I am very circumspect around clients, friends who I know don’t swear (very few of those lol! ) folks I don’t know well, children (mostly..if their folks swear around them then I do too,) public settings, and you all!! I have an excellent vocabulary and I use it even more extensively when I can’t swear!

Around family I don’t even think about censoring myself because everyone swears!

I think I’ve done an admirable job not letting loose here on the forum, don’t you? 😉

What about you? What are your rules about swearing?
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Pretty much the same as yours.
 

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