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swearing - a ****ing **** way of expressing yourself?

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  • #52
    amandstu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭amandstu


    TheLastMohican wrote: »

    Can anyone come up with a reason why fuck, bollox, seeyounexttuesday etc became offensive?
    .

    Obvious surely. To get on in the world you have to get on with people. That includes saying the kind of things they want to hear.

    If you don't want to "get on " then you don't bother (so much).


  • #53
    TheLastMohican
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    amandstu wrote: »
    Obvious surely. To get on in the world you have to get on with people. That includes saying the kind of things they want to hear.

    If you don't want to "get on " then you don't bother (so much).

    Is it the sound or pronunciation that hurts their/your sensibilities?


  • #54
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Medusa22 wrote: »
    Now, I curse like a sailor, I use curse words to emphasise, to add a bit of colour, as adjectives. However, when I'm actually angry I don't curse at people, because that would be rude :pac:

    I'm the same, I'm very sweary in day to day life, but if I'm tearing strips off someone I probably won't swear that much, or at all.

    Swear words can be filler words that make sentences have a much better rhythm, no way does using them properly indicate that a person is stupid or inarticulate.


  • #55
    amandstu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭amandstu


    TheLastMohican wrote: »
    Is it the sound or pronunciation that hurts their/your sensibilities?
    Both. In so far as I have sensibilities I would like other people's behaviour to acknowledge that I am the centre of the universe. So anything that contradicts that must be a no no.

    If I use swear language , then I expect my subjects to do the same. If I like pepsi then you can be in my good books by not obviously showing a preference for diet coke.

    And so on.


  • #56
    TheLastMohican
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    amandstu wrote: »
    Both. In so far as I have sensibilities I would like other people's behaviour to acknowledge that I am the centre of the universe. So anything that contradicts that must be a no no.

    If I use swear language , then I expect my subjects to do the same. If I like pepsi then you can be in my good books by not obviously showing a preference for diet coke.

    And so on.

    Cushty! :cool:


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