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How do you feel about profanity? (Cussing, swearing)

Yerda

Veteran Member
I rarely use an entire sentence without a swear word. I'm mostly unconscious of this and it takes some mental effort to refrain from swearing. I've introduced myself to the family members of friends with sentences like, "How's it f*****g goin'?" (to mutual embarrassment), and once swore on a science test in high school.
 

ravenstrike

Court Jester
let us look conversly at the word "Fu*k" vs the word "Crap".
Crap is a rather poor attempt at a euphemism for human excrement
Fu*k, on the other hand, is a four-letter work, created for the sole purpose of expressing anger and frustration.
It would appear that anyone who values candor would feel less reservation about saying "fu*k"
 

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
I have no ******* problem with using expletives in my conversations with other ****headed human animals. One particularly ****ty aspect of interpersonal communication is that often the other ******* involved gets all ******* ****y over hearing colorful phraseology. Me? I don't give a **** if people express themselves in quaint colloquial expressions or not. There is a certain ******* clarity that the expletive brings into a conversation that is difficult to otherwise express. For example, if I hit my thumb with a hammer, I am unlikely to yell, “Gosh, darn. Oh my goodness that hurts.” Swearing helps to alleviate the pain – to an extent.

I just wish that a lot of “learned” ******** would get over themselves and their imagined ling-*******-uistic superiority and just call a ******* **** a **** and be done with it. :D

Note: The filter did not catch three words. I edited them myself.
 

zenzero

Its only a Label
Friends,
We use words to express our perceptions, usually it is a projection of the self.
Besides what one gives always gets it back many fold; in a sense that even though a father uses profanities towards his children driven by pure unselfish love then he gets back love back may fold.
Children or anyone who loves understand that those are mere words. The same when used to get back at a others negatively will surely be returned many fold in equal measures.
Love & rgds
 
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