'FOUL' Language

[michel]

Do you use what some people call 'foul' language?
does hearing it upset you?
C'mon folks, roll up roll up.................:jiggy:

 

[jewscout]

I swear like a sailor....it's all F- this and F- that
I'm pretty bad

 

[cfer]

Yeah, I swear a lot more than I used to. I noticed that the older I got, the more I swear, especially the F-bomb.

It's kind of weird that I do, though, because my parents rarely cuss. In fact, sometimes my mom calls me on it if I use anything like that in front of her. Most of the time I'm good about not cussing around them, though. But it's a very concscious effort.

It's weird, but I realize I have double standards for cussing. I don't mind if a comedian uses it, but I think they can go a little too far, too. I know some people who make cussing an artform; very funny to be around and listen to.

 

[Performance Park]

Yeah, I swear a lot more than I used to. I noticed that the older I got, the more I swear, especially the F-bomb.

It's kind of weird that I do, though, because my parents rarely cuss. In fact, sometimes my mom calls me on it if I use anything like that in front of her. Most of the time I'm good about not cussing around them, though. But it's a very concscious effort.

It's weird, but I realize I have double standards for cussing. I don't mind if a comedian uses it, but I think they can go a little too far, too. I know some people who make cussing an artform; very funny to be around and listen to.

I used to swear prior to being saved at the age of 17. At that point, the Lord Jesus Christ almost instantly helped me to break that nasty habit. I don't swear and I don't like to hear it, especially comedians!

 

[Feathers in Hair]

I'm afraid that if I ever begin swearing on a regular basis, I won't be able to stop the habit, so I don't swear. (Except that those who've heard me say "Bother!" would vouch that it sounds like a swear when I say it.) On my job, I've talked to elderly ladies who use the word "Sugar" instead of a curse word, but they managed to make it sound (as Jewscout put it) like something a sailor might say.

 

[Lightkeeper]

I only swear when I'm very angry and then I string every word I know into one sentence. It's a long sentence.

 

[robtex]

I don't cuss. I just didn't seem to ever pick it up. As a matter of fact the last time I cut myself in the kitchen opening a can I said "darn".

 

[Circle_One]

I swear like a sailor....it's all F- this and F- that
I'm pretty bad

Yep, I'm exactly like this too. I swear constantly. Sometimes I don't even realize I'm swearing.

 

[cardero]

Only at video games.

 

[anders]

After leaving my Christian faith, my language is much cleaner. Swearing by any supernatural beings, from either side, just doesn't make sense any more (not that it really did earlier either).

Using swear words referring to body parts or their interactions has never made any sense to me. I know that it is common in, above all, Slavic languages, but I never used that kind. I avoid words referring to excretae as well.

Probably at least partially thanks to my defection to Daoism, I just don't feel the need to react by using foul language. I don't want to upset people by using language they might think inappropriate, and if I'm alone, I know that what I say doesn't change anything.

And anyway, being a language professional, I try to express myself in obvious but preferably playful ways. I can't think of an example that I have used to illustrate my views, but have to make up one on the spot. If somebody says (or writes) something really stupid, I won't reply by telling the person that (s)he is an {expletive gerund} {psychiatric diagnosis}, but recommend him/her to take lessons from a kindergarten kid.

 

[jewscout]

Yep, I'm exactly like this too. I swear constantly. Sometimes I don't even realize I'm swearing.

I think movies like Scarface and Pulp Fiction helped too...i quote alot of movies when i talk and they are often movies like that

 

[Circle_One]

I think movies like Scarface and Pulp Fiction helped too...i quote alot of movies when i talk and they are often movies like that

Again, I am the same way. I always tend to quote movies and then those around me have no idea what I'm talking about

 

[jewscout]

Again, I am the same way. I always tend to quote movies and then those around me have no idea what I'm talking about

whoa that's really creepy...cause i'm the same way lol!

 

[Circle_One]

Such is the problem, JS, when you are a movie buff and your friends are not. I always quiz my friends on movie things and they tend to get really annoyed with me because I constantly put them on the spot. A song will come on at a bar or something and out of no where I'll just turn to one of my friends and say "What movie is this from?" Then they get all put on the spot and annoyed because they can't think of it. It's pretty fun.

 

[jewscout]

Such is the problem, JS, when you are a movie buff and your friends are not. I always quiz my friends on movie things and they tend to get really annoyed with me because I constantly put them on the spot. A song will come on at a bar or something and out of no where I'll just turn to one of my friends and say "What movie is this from?" Then they get all put on the spot and annoyed because they can't think of it. It's pretty fun.

i hear ya...most of my friends are like me but we'll be out somewhere and just start having a conversation straight outta a movie and people will look at us like we're insane...it's hilarious!

 

[Circle_One]

I only have one friend like me, except he's probably 100 times worse than me and knows about that much more than I do as well. He's the only person I know that knows more about movies than I do. But really, it's fun to annoy non-movie buffs the way I do. I love it. And when they look at you like your insane is the best, makes the annoying ten times better

 

[michel]

Hahah! fooled you - I was talking 'chicken talk':woohoo:

Seriously though'
I am like some some of you, I am 'verbally schizophrenic'. I don't really approve of foul language, but one of my phylosophies is 'when in Rome..................' I alway try to attune my language to the company I keep.
I remember the day I was married. There was litterally flooding on all the roads; My Best man , his wife and I had to collect the 'buttonhole' carnations, and I had to duck down in the car as Alan took them in to my wife's parents flat.
We were supposed to stop on the way to the Church for a 'wee dram', but the floods were so bad we even wondered if we would make it on time.
On the way, Alan said to me "You'll have to moderate your language now, if you're marrying such a sweet innocent" - to which I replied "Oh, no problem, I always had to do that between school and home;( not to have used foul language at school would have been another nail in the coffin, for being a snob)"
Just then we came upon the deepest and largest of the 'virtual lakes' in the road. Now that I was feeling tense about the time, I let out a list of expletives................
I shall never forget the look of amusement and the wink alan's wife gave me!:jiggy:

 

[Doc]

I used to but than I stopped. I don't know why. I am not offended by it but when my peers swear, I feel it is just an immature way of releasing whatever our emotions are.

 

[Hope]

I only cuss in extreme situations, and when it's not around others. I just find that "Gosh darn it!" doesn't cut it a lot of times! I never, however, use the f-word. Or take God's name in vain. While I try not to judge those who do tend to swear a lot in their speech, I believe it definitely takes away from the beauty of language when overused.

 

[Lintu]

Cursing when it's not really worth the intensity of the words makes it worthless. If everything is f-this and f-that, when you really want to say f- something it's so worn out that you aren't getting your point across. That's the reason we have "curse" words...without them, it would be much harder to break out of neutral speech.