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For me, I think it is sad people today have so few language skills that they have to resort to swearing. When I see it on CD I just know that the poster is too limited to know any better and give them no further consideration. Educated people, religious or not, should be able to express themselves in a respectable manner.
...I have problems when people using the word "Awesome" constantly in speech and writing. I am sick of hearing it. ....
Oh yes! If there really were a kind and loving god, these people would all be struck dumb.
Though to cut these folks a little slack, it may be that "awesome" is simple the new "nice." If there was ever an over-used word with every drop of meaning wrung out of it, it's the word "nice."
Although I don't particularly care for those words, I have learned "not to judge a book by it's cover." To say that I refused to socialize or befriend someone just because they use a word that is not in your vocabulary, is a bit judgemental. Of course, it is your choice.
I had a kidney removed this past fall and my neighbor, who does have a "colorful" vocabulary, cut my lawn (3 acres), seeded, and cleaned up the gardens. He has a huge heart and is an extremely interesting guy. On the other hand, a guy who lives down the road is pious, attends church regularly and acts like "butter wouldn't melt in his mouth" but don't turn your back on him! He sells drugs and although receives disability, runs a lucrative evacuating business.
For me, I think it is sad people today have so few language skills that they have to resort to swearing.
I totally agree.
I recall my daughter once commenting that "Dad never swears", and she was mostly right. {grin} There are some times when a truly heartfelt curse is not only forgivable but even expected ... like hitting my thumb with a hammer!
But as I told my daughter, English is a very rich language, and there are often multiple words one has to choose from for any given situation. Frankly, the more a person curses, the more I'm inclined to (1) tune that person out, and (2) consider that person to be ignorant (which is not the same as uneducated, but rather, a person who makes a conscious choice to be crude, and that's an ignorant choice to make).
We have rented movies that were rated "R" and I've told my wife "now you know what that rating can be, right?" So, we'd rent them, start watching them and some of them just had too much profanity and took the dvd out of the player and back to Red Box! Some weren't bad enough to do that, so we'd watch them. One movie that definitely had the language in it was Precious, but we still watched it. We watch a movie now and then that has some profanity in it, but we won't buy the movie for our dvd collection.
As far as how mom and pop talked back then, I wouldn't mind going back to that age.......but have to take my cell phone and laptop with me! Seriously though, some of the language used in todays movies and the language that some of society uses is just terrible. A lot of people will say that the "f" word has no place being said on a job. Could you just imagine going to McDonald's or any other popular restaurant and hearing an employee say loudly "what the f--- is wrong with this grill!" or "sh*t" or "da*nit"? I's still like to see what happens when someone looks at a law enforcement officer and starts using profanity toward him/her! Definitely a good way to wind up in jail.
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Originally Posted by stonecypher5413
Ha, gotcha -- I'm 64.
I will grudgingly admit that the M-F and F words are overdone, no matter who's using them to make their point. However, it really p*sses me off when networks censor ANY profanity in movie dialogue to protect my delicate ears and sensibilities.
There's just something LOST in the director's vision when you bleep out all the M-F and F words in great films like "Heat" and "Casino" -- and any Quentin Tarantino movie. (He da MAN!)
The "see-Spot-run" world we grew up in, where Mom and Dad said "Darn" and "Gee Willikers" is as dead as the dodo -- ya gotta adapt.
The first time I heard the "f" word was when I was a Senior in high school and I was totally shocked to hear it. I just didn't stick around people/have friends that said that word. Anyway, I had to actually ask my step-dad what it meant, but I still never used it. He did swear quite often, not saying words like that however, and my mom would most always repremand him for it. When I went into the Navy in '68 and all of us new Recruits took a Navy bus to NTC, when we got there the bus driver yelled at all of us "yet your ******** out of this bus and line up!" All I could think of was "I wanna go back home, NOW!!" Yes, this old farm boy was in for the shock of his life with Navy language that was sometimes spoken!
I remember years ago, I was seeing a gal that was my age, and she loved to say "f--- you" kiddingly (with a smile). I wondered why she said it so much and then I found out that her husband had died of lung cancer from smoking some years before. She also told me that she tried all the time to get him to stop smoking, but he wouldn't.......and when she told me this, she really sounded pissed off (the memory). Did her use of this wording come from her anger at her husband....who knows?
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For me, I think it is sad people today have so few language skills that they have to resort to swearing. When I see it on CD I just know that the poster is too limited to know any better and give them no further consideration. Educated people, religious or not, should be able to express themselves in a respectable manner.
Well, la dee da. Do me a favor and add me to your list of "non-considered". I appreciate it.
So which threads are using the F word so much? I don't see any and I've been on CD for several years. I've only seen s*** a couple of times, don't even remember where or when.
Still waiting for an answer
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