What exactly is wrong with swearing?
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I figured it out and have an answer. I know what's wrong with swearing. If you do it around me, you end up with soap in your mouth. No one wants soap in their mouth.
There you have it, discussion closed.
My father-in-law used to say that swearing is a weak mind trying to speak forcefully.
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My father-in-law used to say that swearing is a weak mind trying to speak forcefully.
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PakoI figured it out and have an answer. I know what's wrong with swearing. If you do it around me, you end up with soap in your mouth. No one wants soap in their mouth.
There you have it, discussion closed.
My father-in-law used to say that swearing is a weak mind trying to speak forcefully.
Well put I must say and I hope you get to keep the suds for the tub. :-)
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PakoI figured it out and have an answer. I know what's wrong with swearing. If you do it around me, you end up with soap in your mouth. No one wants soap in their mouth.
There you have it, discussion closed.
My father-in-law used to say that swearing is a weak mind trying to speak forcefully.
I agree.
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kennylmaoSwearing helps me express emotions which I cannot do otherwise.
But people just think I'm rude, they don't get it.
Please don't take this the wrong way as I'm not trying to be rude. I think that even strong emotions can be expressed with the correct English if you have it within your vocabulary.
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I totally agree with your statement. Don't get me wrong I swear on occasion. Hell I'm a former infantry medic so trust me, my exploitive vocabulary is immense,We said good morning with four swear words in it. Now that I'm out of the military and have a more professional career I chose to keep my language as such, wether I'm at work, with friend, at school, or around family. :-)
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To me it's about the environment I'm in. At my old job in a restaurant, if I didn't inclued a couple "mother:censored:s in the sentence "here's that burger for table 12", people would think something's up. Likewise, when I cut the tip of my pinky off at work, my first reaction was to yell all manner of expletives. In that scenario, it was certainly proper English.
When I'm on the ice playing hockey, it's another environment conducive to swearing. The high impact and emotional nature of sports brings out those responses. There's also the fact that well timed swearing can be hilarious when I'm joking around with friends. Of course, speaking with my boss, talking to a professor, a stranger, in public, around children, etc. I try not to swear.
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When I'm on the ice playing hockey, it's another environment conducive to swearing. The high impact and emotional nature of sports brings out those responses. There's also the fact that well timed swearing can be hilarious when I'm joking around with friends. Of course, speaking with my boss, talking to a professor, a stranger, in public, around children, etc. I try not to swear.
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I understand and do agree with you on this. 👍 Using certain profanity to replace other regular words for that added effect limits my vocabulary over time. But I'm still young and immature so... whatever bro!
I only swear around close friends though because I need to keep my 'good kid' image around adults 
Also, when I'm hanging out with people and they start to swear, it makes me feel more casual and relaxed as I can't stand formal settings. Just me being weird, lol.
Lol, fudge is good, reminds me of an episode of How I Met Your Mother
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That's a really good way of putting it. In my opinion, cuss words are just words that sound forceful, and the meaning behind them is almost never intended. New cuss words come up really often.. and in all honesty, they just sound like really strong words that some random person has made up. A good example of one, which is more of an insult than a cuss word is the word "Gronk" (Probably a more Australian colloquial for "idiot"). It doesn't mean anything, it isn't a real word, but it sounds forceful and that's all that seems to matter.
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Swearing like any other word is a form of expression. I swear allot to express how I am feeling in certain situations.
I am relatively articulate with words so to suggest that using profanity is the above is not true.
To say I am hungry is to state that I am hungry. I do not need to reiterate/elaborate in a so called intelligent way to describe and make the the point as to why and how I am hungry unless of course somebody asks. Just saying that I am hungry hits the point home and we can move on and go and eat! lol
To say that somebody is a "C" is to state that they are a "C", again the word sums up my feeling and description of that person perfectly...A sum of all parts. If the listener needs to know more then I can of course elaborate and go into more details to explain my feeling as to why I think that person is a "C".
Profanity/Swear words are just like any other word that describes something/or how you feel and like all words can be elaborated on if necessary.
If you want to call me a "C" without saying the "C" word then you can come up with a long winded "intelligent" sentence if you like but this will hold little value or impact in the heat of the moment. A one word profanity on the other hand does not beat around the bush and hits home the point in a clear quick and understandable way. Profanity is being efficient with words, why waste letters and vocal effort when 1 word often sums up exactly how one feels!
The "C" word is actually one of my favorite curse words and is very often used :-)
Of course I moderate myself and my swearing depending on the company I am with and of course I do not swear around children, old people or in certain social situations. Swearing is fine in my book but where and when and in front of who has to be considered because our society deems profanity as socially unpleasant but regardless curse words are words that have meanings just like any other.
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Many years ago I use to program in Pascal while at school. I learnt that the best coders were the ones that would use the least amount of code to achieve the same purpose.
People mistake being articlate to one using lots of big words to describe something, this is not true always in every situation. Being able to describe how you feel or something with as little words as possible can often make you more articulate. why articulate the same point in 10 words when 1 will do the same job?
We have all seen politicians take 30 mins and a 1000 words to make a point that either 1 or a few words would have done just fine to make the same point.
For people who think those using profanity shows lack of intelligence should actually look into these words and read about the history of how they came about. This word is another favorite of mine and has a long history and many meanings endearing a negative depending on the situation/context and who is saying it and to who. THIS WORD
I am relatively articulate with words so to suggest that using profanity is the above is not true.
To say I am hungry is to state that I am hungry. I do not need to reiterate/elaborate in a so called intelligent way to describe and make the the point as to why and how I am hungry unless of course somebody asks. Just saying that I am hungry hits the point home and we can move on and go and eat! lol
To say that somebody is a "C" is to state that they are a "C", again the word sums up my feeling and description of that person perfectly...A sum of all parts. If the listener needs to know more then I can of course elaborate and go into more details to explain my feeling as to why I think that person is a "C".
Profanity/Swear words are just like any other word that describes something/or how you feel and like all words can be elaborated on if necessary.
If you want to call me a "C" without saying the "C" word then you can come up with a long winded "intelligent" sentence if you like but this will hold little value or impact in the heat of the moment. A one word profanity on the other hand does not beat around the bush and hits home the point in a clear quick and understandable way. Profanity is being efficient with words, why waste letters and vocal effort when 1 word often sums up exactly how one feels!
The "C" word is actually one of my favorite curse words and is very often used :-)
Of course I moderate myself and my swearing depending on the company I am with and of course I do not swear around children, old people or in certain social situations. Swearing is fine in my book but where and when and in front of who has to be considered because our society deems profanity as socially unpleasant but regardless curse words are words that have meanings just like any other.
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Many years ago I use to program in Pascal while at school. I learnt that the best coders were the ones that would use the least amount of code to achieve the same purpose.
People mistake being articlate to one using lots of big words to describe something, this is not true always in every situation. Being able to describe how you feel or something with as little words as possible can often make you more articulate. why articulate the same point in 10 words when 1 will do the same job?
We have all seen politicians take 30 mins and a 1000 words to make a point that either 1 or a few words would have done just fine to make the same point.
For people who think those using profanity shows lack of intelligence should actually look into these words and read about the history of how they came about. This word is another favorite of mine and has a long history and many meanings endearing a negative depending on the situation/context and who is saying it and to who. THIS WORD
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