I should try to swear less. I sometimes hear other people, especially women, swear the way I do and I don't like it. I don't swear like a sailor though, but I have my moments. It's a bad habit and it ruins one's vocabulary.
nope I don't
yes it is necessary for frustration purposes
It depends on the situation one cannot help it sometimes
swearing is like skipping a rope it means nothing
well if there is a swear word and then there is me and the rest is history!
I should try to swear less. I sometimes hear other people, especially women, swear the way I do and I don't like it. I don't swear like a sailor though, but I have my moments. It's a bad habit and it ruins one's vocabulary.
The title of this thread, "the importance of swearing", gives me the impression that swearing is something is very important and everyone should partake.
Oh no it is trying to be ''sarcastic' I took the expression from the title from this movie:Originally Posted by Scheherazade
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278500/
and of course it is from
''The Importance of Being Earnest'', A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.
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ta vie
I checked that I don't swear, but I guess I should add "anymore". Also I guess I should also add "out loud". Swearing out load is like verbally throwing a punch at someone and can be interpreted in that way especially when co-workers, bosses, clients or family members are present.
So to get out of the habit of swearing out loud, one has to not do it at all. It is a bad habit anyway like smoking cigarettes.
I voted for the last option because I don't know what it means.
I like to curse. I curse a lot.
I am surprised of you not to have understood the last option.
Cursing I understand is different from swearing.
Isn't one supposed to curse back if cursed to remove the curse?
As oppose to swearing which often can be one way if the person being sworn is rather very quiet.
Not a rum punch I hope haha. True although I cannot imagine one swearing as well as punching at the same time that would be impossible.
Punching someone takes all concentration I would imagine.
Driving a car can be a real deterent for swearing. Frustrations build up if one strapped behind a wheel and stuck in between traffic and trying to drive somewhere. It can be a real swear motivator driving.So to get out of the habit of swearing out loud, one has to not do it at all. It is a bad habit anyway like smoking cigarettes.
paris
tes environs tapis
une atmosphère
ravie
c'est super
ta vie
Aren't you referring to the idea that Americans do not know the verb 'to swear' in this context?
FYI: to swear means saying 'f*ck' in all kinds of places, even making it into adverbs and such.
I don't know if you call it 'curse', but in Europe that's something different.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
Agree Kiki.
The meaning of a curse has a different meaning over here in the UK and other countries I believe.
A curse finds its roots in religions and mythology.
paris
tes environs tapis
une atmosphère
ravie
c'est super
ta vie
Curse has the same meaning here, but it also has the same meaning as swear.
I didn't get the last option because I'm not sure it makes sense,
You mean the rest of the poll makes perfect sense to you?
That goes to show how poor my English is.
"To curse" has more than one meaning in the British English as well:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...urse_1?q=curse
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...ritish/curse_3
I still don't get it as in the title of the play it does mean being earnest is essential. That is the whole essence of the play. Are you implying that swearing is essential as well?
Well, the other options make more sense. Not perfect sense. I can at least infer the meaning.
I am not implying swearing is essential I am just trying a play on words.You mean the rest of the poll makes perfect sense to you?
That goes to show how poor my English is.
"To curse" has more than one meaning in the British English as well:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...urse_1?q=curse
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...ritish/curse_3
I still don't get it as in the title of the play it does mean being earnest is essential. That is the whole essence of the play. Are you implying that swearing is essential as well?
It is a bit like saying:
''you can't have your cake and eat it''.
This is a play on words because in reality the whole point of a cake is to eat it.
paris
tes environs tapis
une atmosphère
ravie
c'est super
ta vie
So to swear like a trooper could be the same as 'She is rather cursive'
Yes? lol
I used to be a Feminist ©? But now I just shut up and take it
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.
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."
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