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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI've stopped swearing!
I came to my senses and realized that I am only embarrassing myself. I'm a grown man and should not be cursing like a sailor.
May joy and love fill your lives, and may those darn problems just shoo themselves away!
You will all be in my thoughts, as we are on this crazy ride together.
Remember, turn that frown upside down!
niyad
(113,596 posts)Angry Dragon
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(36,693 posts)NRaleighLiberal
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(36,693 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,786 posts)The use of obscene or taboo language - or swearing, as its more commonly known - is often seen as a sign that the speaker lacks vocabulary, cannot express themselves in a less offensive way, or even lacks intelligence.
Studies have shown, however, that swearing may in fact display a more, rather than less, intelligent use of language.
While swearing can become a habit, we choose to swear in different contexts and for different purposes: for linguistic effect, to convey emotion, for laughs, or perhaps even to be deliberately nasty.
More at link.
But each to his/her own. I cut back greatly when around the grandkids but upped it a notch or two reading the news. It keeps me from throwing my tablet across the room.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,786 posts)Cattledog
(5,919 posts)pdxflyboy
(678 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)but F U C K that noise.
I needs muh swear words!
PJMcK
(22,055 posts)pnwest
(3,266 posts)how good, or Christian, you are - and make others feel "less than".
ALL words are simply sounds that humans use to convey concepts. I myself am a big fan of the concepts conveyed by "fuck" and "shit", (two of the best things in life, amiright people?) I am offended by the concepts conveyed by the words "murder", "rape" and "war"..... those concepts suck entirely.
I have expressed these exact thoughts to the blue-hairs in this tiny conservative enclave in which I've landed here in WA state, when they tsk-tsk about my language - and it shuts them right the fuck up.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)I made a career as a construction worker and semi driver. I liberally peppered my speech with the vulgarities one might expect of a truck driver, and then some.
At a point, some 6-7 years ago, I came to realize that I probably came off, to some, as uneducated and semi literate, and that sort of speech became immediately less appealing and tolerable. I still will use a vulgarity on occasion for emphasis, but it feels wrong, out of date and mostly unnecessary.
That said, I do feel better about myself and believe I am a better person for it.
I'm happy to see that there are others on that train of thought.
Thanks for the post.
Willie Pep
(841 posts)I am surprised by how many well-educated professionals swear. My friend is a doctor and he swears a lot, as do his physician and nurse friends. I asked them if they swear a lot at work and he said that they do. The same is true for the lawyers and accountants I know.
I notice that many younger people swear a lot and it seems less taboo nowadays so I don't think it is becoming out of date
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cursing-swear-words-individualism
http://fortune.com/2016/10/10/millennials-swearing-work/
However, I applaud your efforts to swear less. I swear too much but I try not to at work or in mixed company for the same reasons you stated (looking uneducated and semi-literate).