tof

First a note of thanks to Vader for taking the time and trouble to help protect our liberty. These little battles are every bit as important as the big ones that involve guns and tanks and such.

There are very few words that by their nature bother me. And most of those are racial slurs. As to my use of colorful language, like others have said it all depends. But I always try to keep two things in mind.

-I try to avoid language that might make others within earshot uncomfortable.

-If I am communicating for effect I am especially sensative to the language I use in the context of the audience. But this applies to things like grammer and vocabulary as well.

Spokes Man

^^ That's why I enjoy reading your posts, tof.

Vanishing Point

Now you learn to curse like a Elizabethan sailor, if you must.



http://www.museangel.net/insult.html

tof

Thanks, Spokes...same back at ya.

And thank-you, VP. One never knows when one will find the need to hurl insults at Shakespearian actors. It's resources like this that bring me again and again to s2ki.com

ace123

I thought I would stop swearing altogether by this point, but I haven't.

I do think though that I've stopped swearing in anger altogether. I find there are MUCH better ways to express and communicate frustration if the situation is justified. People seem to write off swearing, but logic combined with strong emotion produce gobs of charisma and can be heard loud and clear.

But in some company, ie military folks (Army brat here), I find I casually swear without realizing it. It's really part of the vernacular, not the offensive term it is in other company. I do use minor swears sometimes at work sometimes, but almost exclusively when it makes for comedic effect--the words are inappropriate, so using them now and then can dramatize irony etc.


Also, I learned a foreign language to fluency (Finnish, and I am rapidly forgetting it); it makes me think of language differently. Swear words are just words, but their reservation from "polite" speech is what makes them special, just like forbidding an action or a food might give it a taboo aura. One of the worst swears in Finnish is the word "devil." The meaning of that word is completely innocuous in other languages, so it's clear the core issue is not what the word means, but the baggage society has given it.

raymo19

And a lot of their parents as well.

tof

Every time I return to this topic and scroll down I spot this and get another laugh.

I have to add that IT workers probably have a vocabulary that would make a sailor blush...but we need it in order to cope.

raymo19

Do you do the out loud question and answer sessions with yourself too? Some folks find that strange or even frightening but I've found that sometimes I'm the only person in the room making any sense.

tof

^^^

When asked (as I often am) why I am talking to myself my standard reply is "because I don't seem to be able to have a meaningful conversation with this <insert favorite explative here> computer."

Lainey

Hell, I've been talking to myself for years.........I thought that was normal?