Did you ever realize?....

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dude its not JUST today, people have been cussin just as much as they did in the 70's hell mabey even the 60's

Whenever I find myself swearing too much, I try to make a mental note to substitute that word with another similar sounding word whenever I go to say it. This seems to work for me.

It seems to be normal for the younger generation (it is an immature behavior), most folks out grow it when they get out the real world.

I think cussing is bad. I don't cuss but my dad always cuss every sentence he says. When people or my dad cuss at me, I feel very angry. I think those words are very strong to me. I feel that they don't respect me. My friends do too, but I know when they just say it for fun. If they yell at me for real and say bad word. I'll be mad.

It's the natural evolution of language, thought and culture. Over time words become less offensive it's just that the process has been massively accelerated due to electronic media.

In Australia we now have a large amount of priveledged white kids who speak as though they grew up in South Central L.A because they think it's tough to mimic a culture that has fuck all to do with them.

When Japanese people come to Australia they always learn how to swear fist because their language doesn't contain any swear words and they think it's a novelty.

So if you can't beat 'em join 'em just try to use swear words that are culturally authentic to you so we don't all end up sounding like Ice-Cube!

i rarely cuss. i used goddamn alot, i dont consider it a cuss word though. psychologically, people may think they sound tougher when they cuss, but all i see is someone who hasnt matured yet.

think about it, 100 years ago words that we use today would have been considered horrible. its just the evolution of language

i don't swear unless i get hurt. if i'm angry i take a walk or punch a hole in my wall. (cheap walls)

I've got a bad habit of cussing, and, yes, I'm a filthy American. :)

Seriously, I am trying (two children - passing a very bad habit on). I've managed to take GD out of my vocabulary (several years ago) and I'm working on using "fuck" only in the bedroom. :)

I don't cuss much unless I like hurt myself or do something stupid. I don't mind that much around myself but it think its jus crude around a lot of people.

cussing is stupid i mean if you say it every 1 in a awhile when your really p.o. then its ok but having every other word be F or S its retartedseriously i know people who have to have every ither word be fuck so. but you know every one lives there life difrent so w.e

fuck fuck forking fuck shit shit shit ass ass ass heel hell
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i found this post interesting as fuck. i really did. nice fucking post

I don't cuss unless I'm fairly angry, murderous in RL...

Online however, it's a whole new ball game.

dats how dey play da game in da ghetto n trailer parks

society gives words bad meanings.... i can say fuck and people will get offended... but i can say frick, and that's not bad... even though they mean the same thing.
I live in an area where most people know french as a second language, and if i swear in french, it's bad. But when I swear in spanish or german, or japanese... no one cares. I dont get society.

its all that awful music there listenin to
ma mamma says that its duh devils music

I'd say "Hell" and "Damn" are my personal favourites.

society is regressing when it comes to thinking. everything's already been done, said, seen. nothing really shocks people anymore so we took what used to shock, took the shock out, and now we need to come up with new stuff. which won't happen.

personally i think that its not right to use at someone u barely know but, just don't say that to your boss or a hot girl!!!I read this but, I don't know if your a guy?

you should all come to ireland and see what casual cursing really is. its all fuck this, fuck that, get the fuck away from me you fucking faggot, before i kick your fucking head in, you fucking ugly cunt, go fuck your ma, you fucking stupid bastard

It's not like language is causing a downward spiral toward chaos. Besides, everyone throughout history has looked at society and thought "Wow, we're really on a downward slide here compared to my dad's generation." It's mostly an illusion of descent--we're pretty much the same people now as we were 1000 years ago. There are spikes and dips in such issues as sexuality and language, but generally speaking we're pretty much the same.

Besides, if you're letting language offend you instead of the message itself being communicated, you're looking at the wrong thing to blame.

I swear ALOT and I don't even realize it! I think that is extremely scary when your cursing and don't even know it. I think you should try to stop cuz I know Im trying to stop so much of it.

There's no 'maybe' about Europe, I live in Ireland (in Europe btw XD) and nearly everybody I know, young and old, swears like a sailor. It doesn't really bother me, unless the intent behind the word is malicious.

It's always struck me as odd that's it's perfectly OK to say things such as "urinate," "defecate," and "copulate," but socially unacceptable to use the more economic forms of these words that denote exactly the same things.

I once heard an explanation from a supposed etymologist that it all arose from the medieval conflicts between the Normans and Saxons. The %u201Cacceptable%u201D words all have Norman derivations, while the short, punchy versions are Saxon.

So it all started with deliberate, systematic cultural repression, and remains as an outlet to express rebellion.

Shut the funk up, you shizzling prink.

It is a natural part of language, people become desensitized to swearing as it is used mroe often, but new swear words arise to take the place.

"Damn" and "Crap" used to be heinous, now people wouldn't bat an eyelid. In a decade or so, fuck will probably be normal.

It's okay to be offended by cuss words...
just don't be a fucking pansy-ass about it. People from all cultures all over this world use swear words.

It's a load of shit how people can deem certain words as okay to say, yet others are offensive...GO FUCK YOURSELF if you don't like swearing.

Whos was the first person to say these words were bad? Seriously, theyre just words, and as long as you dont have children around (cause theyre like sponges) All the power to you.

phuck.phuck.phuck.

lol

words become 'bad' through many different processes, like semantic drift. i do beleive that the f word meant 'to peirce' way back when and was a sort of battle cry in old english or some other germanic language, and through semantic drift, and what not, it became the swear that it is today.

also, one of my teachers who is from the stone age told us that back in the day 'hey' was as bad as saying f**k or sh*t. nowadays 'hey' doesn't mean much.

Moreover, [i think] swears are looked down upon are because they aren't the queen's english, for lack of a better term.

i agree haha

originaly many modern curse words in the english were in every day use it was only blaspheems that rocked the boat. word are only asstrong as there intended meaning. in modern language curse words are used to strenghten the meaning of a sentence andt the meaning of the woerds should be ingnored.
eg. i fucking well hate that little shithead carries more stenght than i jolly well dislike that anoying chap.

Ok first off these words are made up as all language are so i personally dont see the big deal. 2nd off those words arent blasphemy there profanity. Blasphemy is things like :omg, Jesus Christ etc. blasphemy can also be inverted crosses and other things that "insult god". i find it kinda ironic that the same person who is offended by F**k wel say "omg" all the time....

@Ilostfaith: Well how nice for you. When I see people who think like you do, my first thought is "F**king retard". So I suppose it comes down to mutual disrespect. We all have our opinions, don't we? You think people who cuss are immature. I think you're a dumbass. Of course we're not going to agree with eachother. (Unless you're one of the rare morons who knows that he's stupid) So how do we tell who's right? We can't go off of popular opinion. Afterall, most Americans believe that evolution is a lie! So personal experience will have to do, although it won't be conclusive. In my personal experience, I have found that the most wise tend not to get hung-up on the taboo of cuss-words, like prudish, immature idiots tend to do. They reserve their cursing for appropriate situations, not merely for the novelty of it as children do. They see it as adding color, or flavor, to language, nothing more and nothing less. To give cuss words too much power reveals a deeper immaturity than you'll find in the children who cuss for all the wrong reasons. But this is simply my opinion from personal experience. I'm quite certain your opinion will differ. On that note, fuck off you inbred cunt.

I don't see a problem with swear words. Its a word made up by people to express emotion. Its society that makes these words taboo so if used in the right context I don't see a problem with swear words.

just look at the media around you, over 70% movies in america(probably europe too,(cept germany)) has swear words. alot of games and music too

Duh...
Fu##ing wrong topic.
Sorry everyone.
Not that I realy care since ye all donīt know me and even do not saw my face.
I believed it would be disrespect since I cannot erase the comment and so i decided to apologize.

I agree it is very immature. Unfortunately, not everyone grows out of it!

Actually I do too. And I don't hate myself for hating 'em. Besides, did Simon say everyone needs to be or become mature eventually??
I am a Taiwanese and I hate to be called a "Chinese". I do have some Chinese friends. Even though I enjoy being with my Chinese friends, but I just hate the Chinese people. I don't use the word "hate" in front of them, and I think it is a way of showing my respect. Thankfully, none of them ever claimed "Taiwan is part of China" in front of me neither.

Lolchopper.
Blasphemy!?
Let me guess, a devout christian?
Nothing wrong with 'swear words', what is important is what the person IMPLIES by saying it.
Get over yourself, for F*CKS SAKE!

Its the same proabably even worse in other country at least that Ive been to.

I be like cursing 24/7 you know what im saying and shit nigga damn

I've lived in:

China for 5 years.
Japan for 2 years.
America for 18 years.

And WITHOUT A DOUBT, Chinese people are the least trustworthy, the most evil, the most disgusting, the rudest, the loudest, the most illogical, the most corrupt, and the most arrogant...humans I've ever met.

Having moved to China from Japan, I arrived with a warm heart and a smile, trusting them and respecting them just like they were Japanese people.

But I shocked at the horror that is their "society". After the first 2 years of trying to love them... my thick skin had been warn down. They have earned only hate from my heart.

I can't respect a culture that isn't respectable.

Chinese culture is absolutely the WORST culture I've ever encountered.

I don't get why people really want to censor out swear words, I think it makes people want to use it even more when they know there's such a big deal behind it. People use words to express themselves and "f*ck" is how we express our annoyance or anger. There's no point in reducing the amount of times we say "f*ck" because we'd just be putting our angry feelings behind another word like "fudge". Then what, we have to censor that word too?

I think it's normal we swear, maybe you didn't notice as much as a child because people refrained from doing so in front of you. If you watch old films, you can see people swore a lot before too.

I don't think your post has anything to do with the topic.

Maybe you think that about the Chinese, but where were you born? I'm sure if you were born in China with very little money, you would turn out just the same way. When they see people of different color or people who speak differently, they most likely see you as a bag of money because that's just how they grew up thinking. You think everyone has to be nice to you when they are just barely getting by life?

Yes it's different in Japan because Japanese have higher standards of living there. They get to live comfortably unlike most Chinese. Chinese people are strongly influenced by where their elders say and sometimes friends. They are highly traditional people that follow what was given to them. There is little change that occurs here and you just have to accept people are they way they are here.

I don't understand why someone so close-minded would ever consider traveling and living in a foreign country for several years. Of course you can't respect their culture, you don't understand it.

They're just words... once they lose their meaning, they are no longer bad. Isn't it a good thing to reduce what's bad? Oh, and FUCK YOUR MORALS! ;)

Time and place. I think people swear more in some places but having lived in Cnd. they take the top honors in public swearing. THey are not shy about it. In the US people in small groups may swear but you can can get kicked out school, fired and cited with a ticket still for doing that in public.

I used to not mind them and I absolutely loved chinese food. but then i saw the most horrific video on how the chinese skin animals for fur. they skin them alive. they step on their heads. i don't know why they don't kill them first. i think they are sick and get some sort of pleasure out of seeing a defenseless, innocent animal suffer. i hate them. please don't buy fur or anything made in china
watch this video, but its hard to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shgb9qcuxLY

its more expressive than your kiddy holy cow and what the heck. when somethin bizarre happens and ure all WTFF its just more expressive. And what the hell sounds funny too. >

Who cares about swearing? You're a retarded idiot who listens way too much to your parents if you really care about it. I dislike swearing because it just fills time with nothing when used so often (rather than occasional use, meant to emphasize a feeling).

uh yeah i swear 15-30 times a day