Noticed not many people use curse words.
So… why the fuck not?
Fuck knows, fuck you, and merry fucking Christmas.
In seriousness though: no idea. It’s nice though, not every sentence needs an f-bomb or a c-nuke. They’re just helpful and/or satisfying sometimes.
Literally loses it’s meaning and usefulness when overused as well
Just like literally!
L*******y, or the L-word.
I don’t swear often because that makes it so much more satisfying when I do. It’s like rationing out my favourite snacks.
Also it makes you sound much more intelligent when you can express yourself with other words. It forces you to utilize your vocabulary.
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Well go fornicate with your own self, you inadequately intelligent segment of fecal matter.
Not exactly what I had in mind. Other factors play a role as well, of course. 🙄
It makes me laugh when some people give certain words magical powers. They are just fucking words for Christ’s sake.
They’re not “magical”, they just have meaning and connotations.
But certain words DO have power, even if it’s just power attributed by others it’s still power, and it’s really naive to think they don’t.
Agreed. Words are what made us different than animals and words describing abstract ideas made us better than other primates. Words are maybe the strongest power we have
Given the way humanity works, words generally do and should have power (“profane” or otherwise). If they don’t, what’s the point?
On profanity, to me it’s a set of special words to break out for emphasis. If I just casually use them, then they lose value as emphasis. If those words were just as mundane as others, what would be the point of their existence?
Agreed.
I try to ease up on the c word when I think I might be replying to an American because I’m aware it has pretty hideous connotations over there.
Just use ankle for Americans, it’s less offensive to them and most of them are about three feet lower than a cunt anyways.
You can bet your fanny that we have a stronger connotation for that word here.
American here. I try to remember that other folks outside the US don’t have the same negative association we do with that word. It certainly helps ease the stigma I have for it when it’s said in good fun in a conversation. I still can’t bring myself to say it or write it often though.
there’s a subset of women here that go absolutely berserk if you call them a cunt in certain contexts. besides them though, its just another curse word here. use it as you please. pretty fun to say sometimes. and if you say it with an aussie accent, you have a free pass to say it whenever you want
Consensus? This your first day on internet or what?
Why the fuck not?
Beep!
Squid_Slime, you are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.
Meh, I save my swears for special occasions, for when I want to make it clear shit is real.
Otherwise metaphors more plum than the violets of Persia do me fine. (That’s actually a simile.)
You may often be understood quite well even without using harsh language in every fucking sentence.
Infact, refraining from using harsh language increases the impact of it when you actually need to for some god damned reason.
So please, consider using some bloody restraint, and only curse when you actually shit ass need to.
I hope that this comment has cleared it up for you, have a lovely new year!
Nah, fucking throw that shit around like it’s Tuesday.
Because its fucking rude to curse you shitheaded little twat!
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Cursing all the time is like yelling all the time. It loses its effect. That said, If you’re going to swear, don’t fucking censor your words. It’s just stupid.
The common “curse” words like “shit” and “fuck” are pretty impersonal. They can signal an escalation, but are typically pretty minor. They don’t even do that when the speaker is like “I just took a huge shit. Don’t go in there for a while”
Other words, like racial slurs and anti-queer stuff, invoke more history and violence. If someone calls someone an asshole that’s probably not that big a deal. If they call someone a n-word f-gay-slur, there might be a hate crime about to happen.
So I don’t use those words. I don’t want to bring the stuff they import into the scene.
People who are the typical recipients of the slurs using them themselves is a related topic I’m not very qualified to speak on, and I wouldn’t try to police their language.
I don’t focken feel like it, ya cunt.
are you one of them australian fockers?
What the fuck do you care cunt?
It can be
totallytonally jarring. I swear all the time, but if I threw some swears in my comments from my history then the messages behind them would be weakened.Every other word (not literally) out of my mouth is a curse word, so much so that I feel less of a need to use them here. Plus every-once-and-a-while peeps take my rando opinions far too seriously. So, (to compensate), I try to be more polite than I would when actually speaking
