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10-19-2010, 03:39 AM
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So i thought i'd give this another go as my last thread got deleted:P
I want to know your opinions on swearing, do you find it offensive? and if so, why?
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10-19-2010, 03:46 AM
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10-19-2010, 04:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Habitual profanity is the expressive refuge of the intellectually indolent. |
10-19-2010, 04:49 AM
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10-19-2010, 04:57 AM
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Originally Posted by MIJ-VI Habitual profanity is the expressive refuge of the intellectually indolent. | My parents used to say that profanity was the crutch of a poor vocabulary. I always said that they're sentence enhancers.
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10-19-2010, 05:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Moncton, NB, Canada | | | Swearing is stupid, IMHO....but the only time I really find it offensive is if some idiot is blasting em out in front of my kids....or if they're using the name of a guy who's birth I celebrate at the end of December, although even that doesn't offend me, but it doesn't feel right.
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10-19-2010, 05:37 AM
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Can be a valid expression of how people feel though. |
10-19-2010, 05:45 AM
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Originally Posted by MIJ-VI Habitual profanity is the expressive refuge of the intellectually indolent. | While not entirely devoid of truth, I would say that prohibition of certain terms in the English language is a tool of the meglomaniacal and xenophobic.
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10-19-2010, 06:11 AM
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All about the context for me.
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10-19-2010, 06:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Roanoke, VA | | | I don't mind it in the proper context. Like others have said... if they are dropping f-bombs in front of my kids, that isn't appropriate. But, I grew up playing hockey, and profanity is a rite of passage in a hockey locker room... |
10-19-2010, 06:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: New York, NY | | | I hear lots of profanity from people in my neighborhood. Usually uneducated people with out manners use it a lot. I think maintaining a habit of speaking that way will lead to a difficult time in work situations and interviews. Who wants profanity to be the face of their business?
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10-19-2010, 06:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Cosmo420 I don't mind it in the proper context. Like others have said... if they are dropping f-bombs in front of my kids, that isn't appropriate. But, I grew up playing hockey, and profanity is a rite of passage in a hockey locker room... | Why is swearing in front of your kids innapropriate.
you yourself just said you grew up swearing in a locker room.
Its not that I don't agree, its just I alwasy wondered why people get so offended by people swearing around children, knowing that there kids hear twice as bad on the playground and in the locker room.
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10-19-2010, 06:44 AM
| | | | It's all about the context. I swear a lot when I talk to people who I know, beacuse I know not single one of them really cares about it. When I want to be polite, I'll be polite. I have yet to been in a situation where I felt embarrased due to my use of language.
You also got to know WHERE to put the curse words to have the maximal effect. If you just add them randomly in a sentence, you sound incredibly stupid. |
10-19-2010, 06:47 AM
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10-19-2010, 06:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | Some say swearing reflects a culture's dominant fear. I find it interesting, because in both the US and France, they are about sex, while in French Canada they're about religion.
Around here, people proclaim themselves atheists but will still blurt out religion-based swearing, which incidentally becomes meaningless and is only used for its offensive effect. It really is the poor vocabulary's punctuation in this case.
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10-19-2010, 07:02 AM
| | | | I really don't care, be it the good old "F bomb" or the "ZOMG white the guy said the N-word".
Life is to short to be offended, people who are offended by little things like words need to find more constructive things to do with their time.
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10-19-2010, 07:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | I don't find it offensive, it's more tiresome at this point. It has no shock value any more. |
10-19-2010, 07:33 AM
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10-19-2010, 07:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Carol Stream, IL | | | Some words are dangerous and need to be banned. |
10-19-2010, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Yerf Dog Some words are dangerous and need to be banned. | LOL
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