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Topic: Is swearing not looked down upon anymore?

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Tasuki

So this is just an observation that I have noticed for awhile now maybe I am becoming an old fogey who don't want dang kids on my lawn anymore but I was just wondering is swearing like dropping Fbombs or any other "dirty" word not looked down upon anymore?

I mean when I was a kid I remember getting in so much trouble when I would accidentally let one slip even a minor one like damn. My friends and I would always think twice before letting one slip especially the Fbomb. Now it seems that kids just use it just like anything word and dont even think about it. My son doesn't use it around me and other adults (maybe he does when I am not around) but some of his friends every other word is the F word and I am like WTF?? My son asks them please not to use that kind of language around me and his mother and they act like they did nothing wrong. I also see in places around the web minors dropping f bombs in forums and posting.

So I don't know maybe times are just different maybe its how kids are raised now but I am just curious are these things just accepted now?

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Turnip-Forest wrote:

Standards differ from family to family.

This, basically. I know websites like Tumblr use cuss words all the time. I don't really care either way.

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AlexSays

Well you are getting up there Tasuki.. soon we'll only hear from you when the retirement home grants you computer privileges after bingo

I agree with this though:

Turnip-Forest wrote:

Standards differ from family to family.

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Lol, when i have a friend over that cuses sometimes, I tell them before they come over not to cuse when they're at my house, but they do when my parents aren't near and i'm like "SHHH!"

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Turnip-Forest wrote:

Standards differ from family to family.

This, I never swore when I was little neither do I much now but plenty of my friends did all the time just depends on parenting mostly.

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Times are changing for the worse in various areas, in my opinion.

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My friends do that almost everyday, but I don't mind because I don't even say those words.

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AlexSays

Blast wrote:

Times are changing for the worse in various areas, in my opinion.

Lol things were much different back in your day? Like five years ago?

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iKhan

Turnip-Forest wrote:

Standards differ from family to family.

That's the gist of it really. Theoretically, I see nothing wrong with swearing. But I was raised in a household such that it just feels wrong to curse, unless it makes sense.

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I've noticed if you tell a person you HATE them they seem to take that word so seriously weird I find that.

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Geonjaha

Teaching kids that swearing is wrong means that the words will only ever be used when a person is especially angry or emotional about something, making them actually useful for assessing the moods of other people. Then there's the people who just use them all the time - to them they're just words, to other people they have some actual connotations. Think of it on the bright side; these kids are playing a risky game of 'The boy who cried ****'.

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Shane904

Turnip-Forest wrote:

Standards differ from family to family.

This is quite true. Also, not only family to family, but the age of the kids in the family.

My family doesn't care as much now as they did when my sister was younger.

Personally, I think they're just words, but I rarely use them anyway.

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Phantom_R

You can probably blame Xbox Live, Call of Duty, etc. for that, and the parents who buy their kids those games.

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6ch6ris6

language is constantly evolving just like culture.

i use a lot of curse words but i dont really curse or insult people. it is just the way some people speak.

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ReshiramZekrom

but liek yo swerin is liek the hipest thing dudebro

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But seriously, where I live it seems that everyone likes to throw cluster f-bombs and use precision f-strikes. Some can control it, some can't. I can remember my cousin telling me that his friend was swearing a lot. He told his friend to stop and his friend said "I'm not ******* swearing!"

Improvised example of typical townsfolk from where I live: "Man, that ******* guy just ******* threw a ******* football through the ******* school window. Our ******* teacher was flippin' ******* **** an' was like 'Who did that?' and he just ******* ran away from the ****fest. Holy ****!"

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Ryu_Niiyama

I've been wondering that myself lately. I work at a gamestop part time, my managers curse all the time, the customers sometimes curse. I guess I'm officially old fashioned. I've outgrown the stage where cursing makes me feel like an adult. Don't get me wrong I do it... but I use it as an explicative to emphasize extreme emotion. Which I was taught was the intent of swearing. I don't find it to be a suitable replacement for words in everyday conversation. In fact for me that lessens the impact of your conversation. I suppose I find it funny how I have this mindset now as I used to swear like a sailor and my parents were more of the "do as I say and not as I do" sort when it came to that.

Different mindsets I suppose.

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ThePirateCaptain

I agree that it has to do with your upbringing, but I also think part of it is simply because kids are trying to make themselves feel older and by swearing they feel more like adults. This is especially apparent in middle-schoolers from what I've experienced, and you know they're just doing it to be "cool" and fit in. High-school and college people use swear words all the time, but I think it slows down after that.

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RR529

While I agree that standards definitely differ between families, there's no denying that our culture has loosened up on it (and other things that were once deemed "unsavory") over the years (some for the better, and some for the worse).

This is most apparent with what we as a culture deem acceptable for prime time network TV. Two Broke Girls wouldn't have aired in the 90's, Roseanne wouldn't have aired in the 60's, and The Brady Bunch wouldn't have aired in the 50's.

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SneakyStyle

This whole topic makes me laugh, Australia (my country) has been like this since decades ago, but it seems other countrys are following suit, it is no big deal it's just that curse words have lost all their meaning. They are no longer a form of violent outbursts, but rather now they are just more like common sentence filling and joining words.

Welcome to what Australia has been like for a long long time. I don't think it's anything to look down upon, you just have to change the way you think about it.

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AlexSays

Australia.. the country where GTA V gets banned in stores because of crazy conservatives.

Definitely on the forefront of social issues

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