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Do you swear?

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DaWhim

Lifer
let see who don't swear.

edit: let add one more

read this from wsj

In the Workplace,
Every Bleeping Word
Can Show Your Rank
March 21, 2006; Page B1

Ann Garcia had to thread the needle. On the one hand, the No. 1 executive at her former company hated the use of profanity, seeing it as a sign of not having learned to communicate effectively. On the other hand, the No. 2 executive appreciated a potty mouth now and then because it indicated passion. He "felt that if you weren't swearing, you probably didn't care enough," says Ms. Garcia.

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Originally posted by: NiteWulf
I stopped swearing a couple years ago. Profane speech is unbecoming of a servant of God
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I forgive you.


I don't swear around parents, just a habit. Amongst peers, yes. At work, it's similar to amongst peers, it's a fairly relaxed atmosphere, although when I started, I waited for other people to swear before I 'relaxed' into it. I don't think it's necessarily due to a restricted lexicon, but I am lacking in ways to get across extremes without swearing. Like saying,

"it's fücking cold"

I mean, saying

"It's extremely cold" just doesn't get across my entire feeling towards the coldness.

If someone offered me words to replace profanity and still communicate the fairly high level of emotion they can, then I wouldn't swear really.

Swearing can just get across the additional anger/frustration you feel towards something negative, whereas merely describing it, makes it sound more like an observation.

If I saw a bad film, then later on, I would describe it as utter dross and so on, but upon leaving the cinema, I'd probably describe it as a fücking p!ss poor waste of my time.

/my .02
 
Like a sailor 😛 If I'm out with my boys at a bar I have no problem dropping the F bomb every other sentence. If I'm with a client never. When I worked for someone else I swore some but never dropped the F bomb.
 
i voted yes for both but when i'm at work, i don't usually swear out loud or very loud anyway. it doesn't seem very professional, although when you work in and around a factory, i guess it doesn't matter because everyone else is swearing anyway.

at my last job there was this one guy that would swear out loud all the time. this was in an office and it just was not professional at all.
 
Yep. Unfortunately I picked up a fowl mouth years ago in the army and never was able to kick the habit.
 
Fsck no. 😉

It's not like i'm like "fsck" every other word tho.

Even less at work, but most people at work swear.. even the uppity ups, so it's not a big deal.

 
me? what are you crazy? why i never swear...YOU GOD DAMN ****ing ass****!
(btw, these weren't actually censored words, but actually shift+8)
on the serious side, i do curse in school, but less around my parents. but considering that fact that i live in Israel, where every day is a curse, everybody swears here. and a lot. imagine this, you walk in a street, and out of the blue, without knowing you or being provoked by you, some 8 year old kid curses you nonstop. that's everyday life here in Israel.
 
One word isn't better than another, nor worse. It's the message that counts, and as long as that message is communicated, your part is done.
 
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