Poll: Do You Swear?

[otacon]

like a fucking sailor. I don't do it in every sentence like OP said but it is quite frequent. It also depends on the crowd I am in more than anything.

Same here. I'm making a habit of trying to substitute other words for the swears, although this gets more strange looks than if I just swear in the first place -sigh-. :/

 

[Zani]

Fuck yeah.

Unless I'm at work, then I try to limit it, but when I'm with friends, family or alone I swear all the fucking time.

 

[DefunctTheory]

All the fucking time.

Every. God damn. Sentence.

 

[Outright Villainy]

I'd swear, but only in funny/angry/sad/joyous/confusing/annoying/tense situations. When I'm alone sipping tea I don't swear that much I guess. Mother fuckers...

 

[RN7]

Fuck that shit. Swearing is total fucking bullshit, man.

I believe you possess the capacity to formulate an appropriate answer based on the information presented.

 

[soren7550]

All the fucking time. (I do try to stop sometimes though.)

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

Pretty much all the fucking time! see what i did there?

 

[Rune342]

I don't swear, at all. And when I finally do I hope those around me take note, because it is going to take a large event to make me.

 

[oreopizza47]

you're damn right i do!
at least, when the situation calls.
although i have been trying to come up with some replacement swearwords.

 

[Elle-Jai]

All the fucking time.

See? I put the word fucking in the sentence so you get my point. Clever eh?

Lol, how did I ever guess that'd be the first thing said??

Personally, it runs in phases. I did catch myself at about 14 managing to work at least 3 curses into every sentence, then I realised I was just wasting breath to say.... nothing at all. So I hauled out and dusted off my vocabulary and started using real words again.

Swearing is great for emphasis, rage, or that jerk driving ahead of you, but I don't tend to use it in written communication or normal conversation.

Besides, I was raised with a BBC accent, despite being Aussie, and as my best friend once put it (we were about 9 at the time): "You can't swear. That accent makes you sound stupid whenever you try."

 

[Gauntes]

yes, all the fucking time
I honestly don't see it as a problem.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

occasionally, i try not to. I dont really like excessive use of them words, but i have a higher tolerance to them than anyone really. And i mutter them to myself when i'm mad.

 

[superbatranger]

Yes I fucking use cuss words in my vocabulary, but I don't use them frequently.

 

[blah_ducks]

I do; not quite at sailor level, but getting close to it. It's really awkward since most of my current-school-anime friends are super pure, het only, types.

...Also, when the fuck was "smut" deemed a bad word? "Mature smut" I could understand since its usually just gratuitous sex, but the normal kind too?

 

[Akalistos]

swearing is like using spices on a meal. It make it better. But to much make you look like a jackass.

 

[TheDuckbunny]

Not at all, really. I guess I'd swear more if english was my native language. In dutch it just sounds so silly.

 

[Prometheous]

The reasoning behind my lack of swearing is this:

Such words are excuses to circumvent truly expressing oneself with actual dialogue. They are ways to avoid saying what is really on one's mind. Instead of elaborating on one's feelings that person will simply swear and project their emotions as angry and blind. Vulgarity in language is simply a disguise.

Just sayin'...

 

[Kiefer13]

On occasion. The reason I do not do it more frequently is not because I think that the words themselves are vulgar or offensive, but because I feel that the impact of swearing is lost if it is constantly employed. If every second word in a sentence is profane, profanity tends to lose its edge. Besides, using "fuck" every other word makes you sound like a simpleton with a volcabulary of about twelve words.

Swearing is for emphasis, humour, or to show that you are really angry.