the imprtance of swearing: Yes No

[cacian]

please discuss.

[Buckthorn]

I don't like to swear too much as it can lose its impact, I save swearing for when its needed.

[cacian]

I don't like to swear too much as it can lose its impact, I save swearing for when its needed.

Haha indeed reserve the best till last

[Helga]

I don't swear but I chose the depends on the situation because I have occasionally. Generally I don't and I can't even mention bodily functions except with numbers. My friends find it very funny when my dogs get sick and I call them for advice and I can't even describe what was.

[cacian]

I don't swear but I chose the depends on the situation because I have occasionally. Generally I don't and I can't even mention bodily functions except with numbers. My friends find it very funny when my dogs get sick and I call them for advice and I can't even describe what was.

Hi Helga.
How do you mean numbers? I am not familiar with this.

[Helga]

Hi Helga.
How do you mean numbers? I am not familiar with this.

number 1 and number 2

[Themis]

I don't like swearing and I try to keep from using swear words as much as possible.
Swear words tend to lose their impact if you use them too often. Also, I find that generally swearing's more about shocking other people than about letting off steam.

[kiki1982]

I don't mind swearing, if it is necessary to let off some steam and winding up the goodies. If you can't talk without swearing, though, it's annoyring and you show you can't express yourself.

Although I can't see what is offensive about saying 'sh*t', it's merely the brown stuff. Don't be Victorian about it (at one point some thought that mentioning the word 'leg' was offensive and they didn't mention it, even if it was about a table leg ). It has its purpose.

I once shouted f*ck at such an alarming primeval volume after really crahsing my toe into a table big time that my hubby was amazed. I usually laugh when I've done something stupid, but that was too painful to do so.

[cacian]

I don't like swearing and I try to keep from using swear words as much as possible.
Swear words tend to lose their impact if you use them too often. Also, I find that generally swearing's more about shocking other people than about letting off steam.

How long can you go without swearing?

I don't mind swearing, if it is necessary to let off some steam and winding up the goodies. If you can't talk without swearing, though, it's annoyring and you show you can't express yourself.

Agreed most often then none anger inside us gets the loudest words out of us and so mind control is out of the window. Being calm and composed when angry is hard at the best of times and so swear words are easier then get hold off then other mean words.

Although I can't see what is offensive about saying 'sh*t', it's merely the brown stuff. Don't be Victorian about it (at one point some thought that mentioning the word 'leg' was offensive and they didn't mention it, even if it was about a table leg ). It has its purpose

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A what?? LEG although one does tap with one feet doesn't one ?

I guess the expression '' pulling my leg'' must have something to do with it

I once shouted f*ck at such an alarming primeval volume after really crahsing my toe into a table big time that my hubby was amazed. I usually laugh when I've done something stupid, but that was too painful to do so.

Funny I do that too haha

number 1 and number 2

Haha never used them although I think once I heard number 1 mentioned and then they had to explain what they meant.
Weird way of saying stuff I guess because number 1 means other stuff too.

[Revolte]

Swear words are both usable literary tools and health related tools.

Yes as it turns out, when you shout the f word when you are in pain, you don't register the pain as much. Mythbusters for the win!


http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...hy-do-we-swear

Also I think it's disrespectful to the art of word craft to limit the use of any word. Regardless of the religious outlook on them. All words are valid.

Some people say "You use a swear to much and it's bad writing"

Well no duh, if you use Cupcake too much it's the same deal. The word is not the fault there.

[cacian]

Swear words are both usable literary tools and health related tools.

Yes as it turns out, when you shout the f word when you are in pain, you don't register the pain as much. Mythbusters for the win!


http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...hy-do-we-swear

Also I think it's disrespectful to the art of word craft to limit the use of any word. Regardless of the religious outlook on them. All words are valid.

Some people say "You use a swear to much and it's bad writing"

Well no duh, if you use Cupcake too much it's the same deal. The word is not the fault there.

Hehe very true Revolte and I am liking your new avatar very much!
Swear words are almost an exit to frustrated emotions I guess thet stop us from hitting something haha

[Delta40]

The fact that slang words are a subsitute for the real deal and women can't even say vagina in an appropriate setting without it being considered offensive pisses me off more than swear words themselves.

[Desolation]

I curse like a sailor, ever since I learned to talk. I didn't learn that there was any problem with it until I got kicked out of class in kindergarten for continually interrupting my teacher's reading of The Ugly Duckling with a slew of swears.

I don't really see any ****ing problem with it, but I try to tone it down when the situation calls for it.

[stlukesguild]

I curse like a sailor...

Ah... another like myself... although to be quite accurate, I swear like a drunken sailor... Even learned to master profanity to the point of interpolating it into other words as in "Fan- f***-ing- tastic!. My studio mate recently burst out in peals of laughter when in the middle of painting I accidentally spilled some red paint on a carefully-rendered and painfully detailed section of the painting and yelled out "F*** you! you f***-ing f***-er!!!" I am somewhat amazed at my own ability to shut off the profanity. As a teacher I work under rather absurd conditions. My urban students swear at the drop of a hat, and yet as the teacher and role model I cannot swear in the classroom (and have only slipped once or twice in 15 years). Yet out of class all the male teachers... myself, the Phys. Ed teacher, and the Math/Science teachers swear continually... especially about the students: "How was your class today?" They were f***-ed up! That Deonte ________... he's one f***-ed up mother f***-er." The Phys. Ed teacher is hearing-impaired and wears a hearing aid... which he often turns down during class so that he doesn't have the hear all the noise. Unfortunately, this leads to him saying some things a bit louder than he recognizes. On more than one occasion I have heard him proclaim, "These kids are all f***-ed up" loud enough so that good number of students hear him. But he is so liked by the students and the students are so used to such language they wouldn't even think of reporting him. During art class one day, several students were making fun of the way the PE teacher talks. One of the real "bad boys" in the class butted in, "Hey! Don't make fun of Mr. B. He's a great teacher. Of course he cusses at me all the time... I just can't understand a f***-ing word he says."

[LadyLuck]

I generally try not to swear. There are much better ways to express yourself, but sometimes I really can't help it. I do get frustrated with people who feel the need to swear every other sentence for shock value. That just gets under my skin, because they just end up sounding very uneducated.