Do you think swearing is something that occurs too often in society...

Yes, but my language is as bad as anyone’s. Welcome to fluther.

It is certainly, in many circles, becoming more acceptable. But like any limited vocabulary, it is boring and tedious to listen to.

Swearing too often gets used as a substitute for eloquence when the speaker want to speak powerfully. Swear words can pack a punch, so they’re occasionally useful as attention grabbers. But they quickly loose their potency with overuse; beyond a certain point, they just draw attention to the speaker’s lack of range of expression.

Must say, I fucking LOVE your topics.

^^Yeah & by the looks of “language Timothy” i’m thinking maybe you’re a brit, that’s a bloody old show is that.

I think it’s simply another aspect of our evolving language and is non-stoppable. Being of a generation that didn’t know what an f-bomb was, I’m still a bit surprised when I hear someone drop it into a conversation, especially in better restaurants and other settings where once you just wouldn’t have heard it. On the other hand, I grew up with a dad who was reared in lower eastside New York, where cursing was de rigor. I never heard him use the f-word, but he’d let out with some dillies from time to time, and I confess, I inherited the same tendency.

Where I live, it is definitely used way too much, and way too casually. Even cashiers in supermarkets, who are supposed to be professional, sit and swear all day. It’s just rude and makes me feel uncomfortable.

Fuck yeah!

At age 15, swearing doesn’t even register in my mind as something alarming when I hear it. My teachers swear in regular class discussions. When I walk through the hallways at school, people’s mouths are unfiltered. While I tend not to swear often because of my religious parents, if somebody did it would go unnoticed.

I really don’t find swearing a problem. They’re just words that we have arbitrarily chosen to be offensive. It does not bother me.

@ucme Seems to me that your comment is no longer relevant to the thread cause the mods have deleted the tags. Sorry old bean. Ain’t that a bitch?

@SamandMax For you maybe, I already noted one in particular & got my point across, so it’s all good for me what, what!

Yes. I am aware of it and sensitive to it.

I do swear on occasion – but beat myself up about it afterwards.

GQ.