What was your first curse word? Where did you learn it? And how old were you?

[scorptatious]

Ahoy there fellow sailor mouths! Let's talk about the wonderful fucking world of goddamn swearing!

So what was your first curse word? And where and when did you learn it?

Me? I remember seeing the movie "Dude Where's My Car?" when I was about I think 7 or 8. I heard the word "ass" in there, and I figured, hey, that's a pretty cool sounding word.

Then, I used it in front of my dad. He was not amused.

So how about you guys?

 

[aba1]

I can't remember myself actually now I am genuinely curious XD

 

[Mocmocman]

I don't remember how old I was but I believe it was Blazing Saddles that I heard it from, and it was the N-word.

 

[Agent Cross]

I picked up the word "*****" when I was around 5. My dad used it along the lines of, "That lucky son-of-a-*****." I already knew "son-of-a-gun." So I thought it was just the same. To me it was like comparing good to great. At some point though I dropped the "son-of-a" part and just went with "*****." I let it fly out of my mouth at Thanksgiving. We had a huge turkey, and I told my grandpa to, "Look at the size of that *****." The look he gave me, I honestly thought he was going to kill me. He told me he'd throw me out the window if I ever said it again. And I don't think I did until I was a teenager. It is a very vivid moment. My grandfather was a very big man.

 

[Kolby Jack]

I'm not sure if it was the actual FIRST swear word I ever said or even the first one I knew, but I was maybe 7 or 8 years old when I saw the movie the Twister which introduced me to the word "shit." I started saying it over and over until my mom asked me where I learned it and then just plain told me to cut it out. But apparently that leeway did not last because a year or two later I said "damn" in front of her and she washed my mouth out with soap ( she knew I knew what it meant). She also wouldn't let me watch Red vs Blue in early high school due to all the swearing, much to my extreme dismay.

But now I swear all the fuckin' time, not just because I'm an adult, but also because I picked up the habit from online gaming and being a sailor. I even swear in front of my mom sometimes, though only when I feel I really need to in order to get the point across. I've also noticed that now that his kids are all adults, my dad swears almost as much as I do. Props to him for holding it in as well as he did when I was growing up.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

"Candy ass"

...I was a child at the time, and I was quoting one of my favorite wrestlers The Rock.

 

[sizzle949]

Told some kid who was trying to pick a fight to fuck off back in grade 2 so I would have been 7 or 8. Learned it from my aunt who like the rest of my family are from the maritimes where swearing is our second language.

 

[Ix Rebound]

I learnt most of them around year 4 or 5 of primary school, mostly cause I hung around with what I guess you would call the "naughty kids" which I was oblivious too at the time.

and oh boy was I in for it when I called by 10 or 11 year old sister a slut, I thought it was just another word for "*****" at the time

 

[Mourning_Star]

From Men in Black, "shit," "hell," and "goddamn."

The first time I ever actually swore to somebody was in 6th grade when I told a kid who claimed I owed him money that I didn't owe him shit.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

I learned the majority of my more interesting curse words when I was 11 years old. That was when my older brother came home drunk for the very first time and I got to hear some very intriguing phrases when my mother chewed him out.

I think my favorite (definitely my mother's favorite when she was mad) is "worthless as tits on a boar." She also leveled "You must have your thumb up your ass and your mind in Arkansas" at him as well.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

First one I remember was damn, but that isn't a real curse so after that I think it was... Fuck? Yep, fuck.

My family always had mouths like sailors.

I learned it from my entire family and started used it for the first time at 6 I think. Didn't become a crucial part of my vocabulary until I was 10 though.

 

[Lieju]

It depends on what you consider to be a swear word.

I knew the word 'paska' (shit) all my life, it was just a descriptive word used on the countryside. At some point I found out you shouldn't say it in a casual conversation.

I don't curse, that's just not the kind of language I was brought up with.
I knew what words like 'penis', 'vagina', 'whore', 'sex', or 'Hell' etc meant, and used them in conversation, though, when appropriate (such as when discussing reproductive biology or religion). My mom raised me with an atitude that those were just words, and I read plenty of literature with that kind of language.

As a kid, I tended to look down on cursing, because I was of the opinion that it showed a lack of imagination.
And to be honest, most people overuse them or think just adding a shitload of fucks makes something funny. It took time for me to come across writers/comedians who effectively used foul language in interesting and clever ways.

EDIT:
And generally, I dislike using pejoratives, because quite often they're kinda insinuating things about the person/subject that are either irrelevant or offensive to other things.

Words like 'gay' or '******' are obvious ones. If you're using either word to offend someone, you are insinuating it's bad to be gay or black.

Or words like 'fucker' or 'cocksucker'. What, there's something wrong with having sex or sucking cocks?
It's not something I'd complain about if other people use them (unless there's clear sexism/racism/homophobia/etc assosiated with it), but it makes me uncomfortable enough not to use words like that myself. Might just as well just call them out on the thing you're mad about.

 

[Olas]

Fuck, my dad said it all the time. It's a pretty hard word to avoid these days.

 

[Mauler]

Yeah mine was desa(susage in Latvian) and after that was the first sentence eda desa(eating sausage) Soo yeah...

 

[Flatfrog]

When my son was about three he was in nursery school and they were playing a game where they went round in a circle naming things that start with a particular letter.
"So, who can name something that starts with F? Amy"
"Flowah"
"Very good. Jamie?"
"Fish"
"Great! Flatspawn?"
"Fuck!"
**long pause**
"Lovely. Sadie?"

 

[Flatfrog]

I also remember clearly where I was when I learned that masturbation isn't considered polite. It was in my grandmother's bed.

 

[Quicksilver_Phoenix]

"Bloody" when I was about 6. I found it hard to believe that there was something as silly as words you can't say at the time.

 

[krazykidd]

Fuck . I don't remember how old i was ( i was pretty young ) . I woke up one night , and thought it was 1 pm ( i was looking at the time on the VCR ) . I think i was 5 . I remember the scene like it was yesterday , but no idea what it was . There was a guy and a girl sitting on a beach , the guy was europeen ( based on his accent ) and the girl was american . This is the line he said .

Guy: what is this fuck i hear everyone say , the more i hear it the more i think it's a bad thing . We do not fuck , we make love .
Girl : buddy , you might make love , but i fuck .

Then i realised that it was 1 am and still night time , so i turned off the TV and went to bed , but that moment stuck with me my entire life .

 

[Phasmal]

`*****` is used so much in my house it's watered down to mean practically nothing.
Especially because of my mother's favourite saying when we would say she was being unfair: `Life's a ***** and so am I`.
To be honest, I've started using that myself.

 

[Angie7F]

I honestly cant remember. But I can swear enough to make a sailor blush.