Is Having a "Potty Mouth" Part of the North East Culture? (house, high school)

[dad2jules]

Having been born and raise in NY I see northerners use of curse words differently. If you listen carefully they are usually used to enhance adjectives. "It was so f!#%$%g cold out."

[Fallingwater79]

Originally Posted by dad2jules

Having been born and raise in NY I see northerners use of curse words differently. If you listen carefully they are usually used to enhance adjectives. "It was so f!#%$%g cold out."

Yes, yes, that's it exactly! We don't use it in derogatory, degrading terms for the most part but more in the exclamatory manner: F%$^&* cold, F%^&%$ taxes, F$%%^#$& corrupt governor, F$%^^%% black slush covering my new Pradas, F%%&^%^% NYC sucking us dry...

We live in the land of the damned so therefore, our language reflects it so give us a f#$$%^ing breaK already.....

And those who live in the land of milk and honey speak like sugar...

[JQ Public]

I think a lot of men in the South cuss, but only around other men.

I also work w/ a lot of doctor's offices from up north and some of the nurses cuss like sailors. It is pretty funny.

[NH2NC]

hopefully you're not my neighbor :-) we do tend to utilize the word f_ck as an adjective.....takes time to get out of our system. I actually learned most of my swear words while riding in the backseat and listening to my dad cross the NH border into MA.....those darn M*******s and the way they drive....:-)

[zitsky]

Originally Posted by NCN

So I would like to ask another question relating to this subject. Has anyone from the North ever been spanked or had their mouth washed out with soap for using four letter words? That is what would have happened at my home when I was a child if I had used a curse word. It just was not allowed or ever acceptable. I was taught that people use language like that because they are too uneducated to express themselves in another way. Yes, it is very low class.

Yes, I've had my mouth washed out with soap, and been spanked, not so much for dirty language, but for talking back to my parents. I consider myself the "good" kid in the family. My parents tended to overreact to being challenged but that was their way to deal with it. My mom & pop weren't the most loving or the best parents in many ways, but I still care for them.

I hope this example goes to show that calling all northerners potty mouths is no better than calling all southerners rednecks. No one can can convince me that southerners don't swear!

[MikeJaquish]

Buy a phone that makes routine stealth butt calls and a good bluetooth earpiece, and keep the earpiece on your ear as much as possible.
It won't be long before you will think twice about what you are saying and singing.

[lindalou.22]

Jis fugitaboutit!

[Strongasabear]

I was born and raised in the Northeast and do not cuss at all. My best friend, however, born and raised in the South, has a mouth that would put a trucker to shame! Sorry to all the truckers out there...don't mean to defend a stereotype with another stereotype.

[joey2000]

Originally Posted by CrysD724

I think it is sad that so many people think they have a right to judge others by the way they speak.

It has nothing to do with "having a right" to judge others. It's human nature. We all judge people and in a variety of ways, rightly or wrongly so.

Perhaps those who are so afraid to curse are so afraid that others will judge them when they do. But shouldn't you be confident enough to believe that it doesn't matter because you're a good & intelligent person otherwise?

It has nothing to do with being afraid or confident, it's about consideration for others and having some class.

PS I'm no boy scout, but even under adverse conditions or moods I try to be very careful of what I say and how I say it. I don't get why this is so hard for so many to get.

[PrincessCB]

I love this topic! Maybe D.C. is not northern enough, but the commute to and from work each day and the stressful work environments is enough to make you use language that is not to nice.