Cussing
Who cusses?I,unfortunately,Cuss like the proverbial salor.I cuss while talking to family and friends and dont notice that im doing it.Do you have a "favorite" cuss word,or one you use most often?Curious...
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I too, am a potty mouth. I really try to watch my mouth when I'm around mixed company, and am usually pretty successful. When I visit with some certain friends who every other word is the "F" word, I catch myself falling right in line with them. I have one friend so bad at cussing that we usually correct him when he is around other folks who may find his vocabulary offensive. 0 -
I only curse/cuss after thinking about it. I use those words to provide emphasis to my normal English, which is poor, at best.
Doug
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i read somswhere that cussing was used by groups who didnt follow the norms of society, IE, the mobsters and gangs in the 50's would use those words to identify with other mobsters, gangsters. If there was a straight person, he would stick out like a sore thumb. 0 -
I cuss when I am in a setting where cussing fits in. I don't cuss where it doesn't. I call it, "adaptability" and "situational awareness".[;)]
I do admit that it is a bad habit, but as long as you can turn it off when in an inappropriate setting........0 -
It's sad to see how many people these days cannot control their language when in public. Used to be, if a kid or a woman was in ear shot, even sailor's watched their mouth, or they had a man's fist stuffed in it. 0 -
About 60 years ago my Mother taught me that profanity is an adult way of crying. It is an emotional outburst that conveys no real information, just a display of the speaker's frustation.
S. O. B. will convey no real meaning, only tend to alienate anyone that hears it. Such vulgarity alerts all around you that you are emotionally out of control and should be disregarded.
Any reasonably intellegent person can substitute "incompetent jerk" and convey much more meaning without offending anyone within ear shot other than the one so labeled.
My Mother's lesson was to choose your words for their meaning rather than shock factor. You would be surprised at how many people are totally unarmed when a battle of wits occurs.0 -
Sometimes when I am trying to express myself and don't have the vocabulary to do it, I might slip a few in. Like when I drill a hole in my thumb, or something. It's really a lack of command of he English language. 0 -
Dad is construction. Ive heard it all, just being on a job with him.
If its people putting a nail in their hand, falling, getting a wrong measurement, yelling at the non union mexicans.....
Ive let one slip if i get REALLY mad, or if i get hurt or step on something sharp, but i get my mouth smacked and never know if mom has soap on the tips of her fingers [xx(][xx(][xx(] Dawn dish soap tastes like CRUD!0 -
Yes I do. Mainly the four letter words. 0 -
Just as with guns, "only use em when ya need em" 0 -
Not yet today...but it is early. 0 -
I was brought up cussing, Pop & Mom cussed Grand Pop and Grand Mom all cussed. Even Father O' Odley cussed. And all my wifes cussed when they left me. They said my first word was a cuss word...... I even got expelled in 3rd grade using a cuss word
In school one day the Nun told the class to think of the word BEAUTIFUL, something u heard your mom or dad say using the word BEAUTIFUL
The girl in front of me said " my mom said she had BEAUTIFUL flowers"
The boy behind me said "my dad said he had a BEAUTIFUL car"
On and on this went.........................Until the teacher asked me
Wallie, didn't u ever hear your parents use the word beautiful
I stood straight up and said YES teacher ( Sister Mother Theresa)
When my sister came home knock-up my pappie said
BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL just F***EN BEAUTIFUL0 -
Let me see, I am a Merchant Sailor for over 35 years, and worked with Longshoremen, in a Supervisory capacity for over 25 (concurrent) years...Hmmm.
Sir Richard Burton (the Explorer/Author, not the Actor) always learnt the cusswords of any new language he needed to use first, because he said that it is pretty funny/useless to tell some third worlder "could you please stop threatening/cheating me", in the midst of some war or conflict or another.
I am a Full Spectrum Speaker - I can do "polite", and I can also do "not polite" - as the situation dictates. My New York High Society Matron Battleaxe Grandmother showed me how to dress down anyone who needs it in terms that might pass for honeyed blandishments, if you were dumb or not listening closely. I also learned from some of the most colorful cursers there are in the whole world, in several languages - found that skill useful in the (ahem) worse parts of the port areas of the world, on many occasions.0 -
I used to ... and still do. I don't incorporate many into every day
conversation but I suppose I can keep up with the 'best' of them
when I'm prompted.
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I occationally let something slip if I'm angry, but I consider it a personal weakness. There are two things in this world I have 100% control over...what goes in my mouth and what comes out of it. 0 -
i cuss in the car when driving. not around family and soome around friends. but when im in the car i can string together words in chains i never thought possible 0 -
I really don't. I used to cuss at cows, but my dad told me that cussing at cows don't count as cussing. So i'm good there. 0
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