Poll: How do you feel about profanity?

[BOOM headshot65]

I try to avoid cussing. Although when I get enraged, there are no gurantees.

I also avoid cussing when around my parents or other adults, and I DEFINATLY avoid it around kids. Although, PG cussing like "crap", "Dang it", etc. are exempt.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

It kinda comes naturally to me, I don't really think about it actually.

 

[Substitute Troll]

I'll just leave this here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM

A quick summary of my own opinion: swearing can add comedic effect if used properly and in the right moment, but using it in the wrong way makes you look bad.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I'm not from Scotland but I'm constantly on skype calls and talking to a boy from Scotland...well few boys....but one in particular. He tells me I sound like I'm from despite my American accent. Though I've been told by other guys in England that I occasionally develop a nice Glasgow accent if I get angry/tired enough.

A Glasgow accent is the very best accent in the world when you're angry. Nobody sounds as angry as an angry Glaswegian!

Debatable. Russians and Germans are pretty good with the anger....Though to me their whole language in general sounds angry *shrugs*

 

[Wekub]

It's just a part of language like the rest; if you use it well, it'll enhance your speech/writing, but if you use it too much or when/where it doesn't fit, you'll just seem a fool.

 

[Woodsey]

I like it when people try and go "oh, you swear - you must think you're a big man blah blah blah," when they know they're losing an argument. Someone tried doing that the other week on here.

Just... no. You look like a fucking idiot. I like swearing, that's it.

 

[CATB320]

There's a time and place for it.

 

[Zen Toombs]

I usually don't mind other people cursing, but about a year ago I decided stopped cursing. *shrug*

 

[BreakfastMan]

Couldn't give less of a fuck.

I tend to moderate my language when I'm around a friend of the family who happens to be a priest, but otherwise I swear quite regularly. Both for emphasis and to relieve frustration.
I see no reason to keep a section of my vocabulary locked up for special situations.

You know what annoys me?
Egads.
I can't take it when people say or write stuff like "gosh" or "dang".
If you want to use a "power-expression" for emphasis either go all the way and curse properly, or use some more sophisticated vocabulary to express your thoughts please. Swearing won't harm anyone.

Well, gosh darn it all. I guess you showed me, you dang nonce. I will try to spice up my language a bit more from now on. You square.

OT: Eh, I prefer not to swear. I just like not to offend people and I like to be polite. Swearing is not typically helpful to either one, so I tend to avoid it.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

Please say it correctly. They are sentence enhancers not swears i.e. "Fuck those god damn mother fucking, cock sucking, sons of bitches." See isn't that more interesting than "I dislike that group highly"?

Also while we're on the subject wh does no one use "Father Fucker"? It's always "Mother Fucker".

 

[Matt Dellar]

It's unprofessional and often comes across as immature. I avoid it.

 

[3 legged goat]

I really don't see a need to swear unless something terrible has happened.

 

[Zeraki]

Normally I avoid using profanity unless it is a situation that calls for it(getting hit in the throat with a baseball), or for comedic purposes.

 

[thylasos]

I don't give a damn about swearing, in all honesty.

It's not indicative of a poor vocabulary, necessarily, as demonstrated in the video of Stephen Fry discussing swearing which I'm sure will have been posted earlier in the thread.

Obviously having control over your language is important, though. It shouldn't be inseperable from your normal pattern of speech, simply for ease of modifying said speech for situations in which swearing is not acceptable.

 

[Phasmal]

I use it around my friends and my boyfriend, but I don't swear in front of my family at all.
I think it's easier like that, also, because I often work around children, it's easier to be able to switch it on and off so you dont swear when a kid drops something on your foot.