the imprtance of swearing: Yes No

[Paulclem]

What curse word are you censoring when you write "n*b"? It seems the only six possibilities are nab, neb, nib, nob, nub, or nyb. Are one of those a curse word in England? Same question for "t**t."

Sorry - nob which means penis in the UK dialect.

Then tw*t.

[cacian]

So to swear like a trooper could be the same as 'She is rather cursive'

Yes? lol

Oops that is without implying the cursor from computer cursors.
Damm it this is getting more complicated then I had first thought.

[cacian]

Posing swearing is a nuisance, but pain relief swearing is a necessity.

Swearing can become habitual, but as St Lukes points out, there's an auto switch which unconsciously kicks in in different situations.

With the ederly relatives - no swearing.

With the adult learners in class - no swearing.

With my wife - a muted level of swearing. We both swear, but not gratuitously.

Interestingly, in my office with the other managers I work with, the level of swearing is very gradually creeping up. We are all on the same level, and freely admit to swearing in certain situations. This has only come about when our two bosses relocated to another office. Neither of them swear.

Another interesting one is an increasing level of swearing with our children. They are both grown now, (we didn't swear in front of them or encourage them to swear when they were at school), but it has taken a few years for them to be comfortable using swearwords around my wife and I. We've made it clear, by our example that we don't mind, though no-one uses it in a gratuitous fashion, but rather to describe what someone said verbatim, or to add a suitable comic emphasis. This is nice, as we all feel comfortable with it.

My brother's wife is strictly no swearing around their young daughter, which my brother readily agrees with, but he sometimes slips up. On one memorable occaision, (which I have related here on another thread, so apologies if you've read this), he had a dispute with another driver on the forecourt of a garage. His daughter was in the car at the time. The long and short of it was that he ended up swearing vociferously at this other bloke and calling him a flat nosed n*b-head, amongt other things. (That's currently my favourite comedy term of abuse). Time passed, and another occaision arose where he swore at another driver as they were in the car. My brother said - "don't tell your mother I said that". Whereupon my niece said:

"Don't worry Daddy, I didn't tell her when you called that man at the garage a flat-nosed n*b-head either.

That reminds me of another story a female coleague told me. She said she realised that she had got into bad swearing habits whilst driving when her very young granddaughter, after a near miss one day, said from the back seat;

"He's a t**t isn't he Gran".

You have to laugh.

Haha very true althouhg one must be careful to differentiate swearing from the other swearing as to ''swear on oath''.
Indeed context plays a crucial role in telling us which is which.
I was sworn once to be loyal to the Queen. Interesting it was.

[cacian]

Sorry - nob which means penis in the UK dialect.

Then tw*t.

''tw*t'' ? that is not rude I am sure it is not here in the UK.
''Twit'' is very similar to tweet.
Another is ''tosser'' but then vegetables are often said to be tossed in a salad for example. So really context is crucial.

[Delta40]

Tw at is a slang word for vagina which is used to called somebody a dumb c unt. I don't know about you but I would say it is rude myself

[cacian]

Tw at is a slang word for vagina which is used to called somebody a dumb c unt. I don't know about you but I would say it is rude myself

Hi Delta where I am in London this word is said all the time and has no offending meaning other then as saying ''silly''.They are the same hence what I have posted earlier.
I am sorry if it means that where you are.

[Paulclem]

Hi Delta where I am in London this word is said all the time and has no offending meaning other then as saying ''silly''.They are the same hence what I have posted earlier.
I am sorry if it means that where you are.

Haha.

Don't say it to any policemen, even in jest. Just to point out that the uncouth usage of Londoners is really no measure of the rest of the country. I think it likely that different parts of the country have different words in common usage.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Is twat censored?

Edit: Nope. Always just type the word, all. There're a surprise lack of censored words on here, and if it isn't censored you can't, according to the written rules, get in trouble for writing it. That they allow pussy, twat, and dick isn't your problem. (I write this because self-censoring annoys me to no end.)