Other countries' attitude to swearing

[Heltor Chasca]

My ex wide is Australian. Potty mouthed is only half of it, but you should have heard her giving birth. I was amazed security didn’t kick her out.

Her family would openly swear (strongly) in front of both my daughters. I had to put some boundaries up. Now I know why it wasn’t a match made in heaven.

 

[mustang1]

What's really weird is when people (including me, but I've been brain washed, probably like others), when we write the word fxck, we always have the asterisks like f*** this or f*** that. But does ANYONE really not know that the asterisks are uck. Same thing at the office. If you write shxt in an email, it gets flagged up. But if you write it with asterisks like s***, then it's completely fine.

Darn it, now i think there's too much swearing in this one single post and maybe I shouldn't post it. Oh f*** it. If it's too much, I'm sure the mods will delete it.

Wait, there's more. You dont actually have to write the f word. You can just say (for example) "Those mothers at (some place) really screw things up". Now what is "mothers" short for? Well, well all know, yet we can still say it. AND THE WORST THING IS that TV| program "Gordon Ramsay's F Word". WTF - how can THAT go on TV? Again, no one knows what F means? And wasn't there a clothing brand whose profits went thru the roof which suddenly declined to rubbish?

 

[mustang1]

Correct outline of the circumstances, but wrong conclusion.

The reader - generally - is not offended by the gossip and images.

Quite the reverse, readership surveys indicate this stuff is popular.

The reader - generally - does not want to read swear words in the paper.

Far from being 'daffodils' the journalists/editors are complying with their readers' wishes.

Because, of course, that sells more papers/gets more internet views.

But isn't that was page 3 Sun readers wanted? The Sun was catering for it's readership (or should that be "pictureship").

 

[mjr]

[QUOTE 5215936, member: 259"]Our daughter was in Montreal for a year and she has the widest and richest swearing vocabulary I've ever encountered.[/QUOTE]
So that's where they got it from!

 

[Milkfloat]

I can have a bit of a potty mouth myself - but honestly, they are only words they won't hurt you. Claim them and use them.

 

[GM]

Can I just say, that I only swear when it slips out

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Can I just say, that I only swear when it slips out

Well, pop it back in before someone sees you!

 

[Salty seadog]

Lewis Hamilton trotting out 'freaking` ever sentence makes him sound like some kind of Uzi wielding gangsta rapper.

Not. Makes him sound like a berk.

Berkshire hunt.

 

[smutchin]

[QUOTE 5216073, member: 43827"]There will have to be some real inventiveness for new words to really use at those moments of genuine anger, shock or pain.[/QUOTE]

Most swearing is just noise.

The most genuinely hurtful/cruel/offensive language doesn't use so-called swearwords to achieve its effect. Never has. Never will.

 

[graham56]

I've heard the 'MF' word casually used on Dutch daytime TV.

The Dutch don’t see using feck as swearing, you’ll hear it all the time even on the radio.
Now Godverdomme is a big no-no.
If you’re abroad learn the swear words first, then you know when someone is swearing at you.
When in the Netherlands I tend to use “wat een lul.”
Oh and you’ll hear kut used alot, thats c u next Thursday

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I can have a bit of a potty mouth myself - but honestly, they are only words they won't hurt you. Claim them and use them.

I've always found the less I use them the greater the impact when I do.

 

[Fnaar]

Spanish swearing is an art in itself:
"I sh!t in the milk of the whore-mother who gave birth to you"