Author Offers Ten Tips on Eliminating Profanity from One's Vocabulary

Cheyenne, Wyoming,Tribune-Eagle ^ | 05-11-03 | Olson, Ilene

[Bernard]

IT'S FARGING WAR !! YOU BASTAGE !!!

[June Cleaver]

Thanks for the post. I find myself blushing when I hear this type of language, and still don't understand the need for it. My husband is in the military, so you would think I would get used to it . . . but it still bugs me!

[eXe]

Yeah heh I guess its a NYC Thing.. I was raised there, and when I moved to california I had people asking me "Do you always swear like this" I did not even notice it in my casual conversation LOL..

Oh well.. no one ever said anything to me, till I moved to cali heh so I guess it wasn't THAT bad : )

[Kerberos]

"Could you send this over to DU? I lurked once and realized most had an incomplete command of our English language"

No reason to send this to DU. The points outlined in this article get utilized quite a bit here. The main difference being that here most people do replace essential vowels with symbol characters.

As for referring to someone as an idiot or moron, which gets done a lot here, I have always interpreted that as the poster not being able to adequately explain their points and it is just easier to blame their deficiencies on someone else.

[strela]

Spock: "Your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall we say, more colorful metaphors, 'Double dumb-ass on you' and so forth."

Kirk: "Oh, you mean the profanity?"

Spock: "Yes."

Kirk: "Well that's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word."

Kirk: "Spock, where the hell's the power you promised?"

Spock: "One damn minute, Admiral."

[tutstar]

ping

[SC Swamp Fox]

I love that farging movie.

[TN4Liberty]

Sadly, I understand what you said there. Does that reflect more poorly on you or me?

[MEG33]

Profound

[Publius6961]

The author of this article is an effing idiot!!! :=), :-)

I disagree vehemently dammit!

The fellow (or fellowess) is a PC effing idiot!!! :=), :-)

[Calvin Locke]

... most had an incomplete command of our English language.

You too? I could not believe the amount of casual use.

I wonder what the percentage of profane words is in a typical DU thread?

[MEG33]

Offensively clear.

[MEG33]

I can't hear what someone is trying to convey when the profanity flies. I just turn it off.I did not revisit DU!

[andy58-in-nh]

More bovine fecal matter from the Sensitivity Police. The devolution of public language stems not from "bad" words, but bad ideas.

[Publius6961]

The devolution of public language stems not from "bad" words, but bad ideas.

BINGO!

[SuziQ]

Sir SuziQ used to have a group manager who used the 'F' word frequently at work. It was disconcerting to a lot of people, but no one ever wanted to speak up because he was their boss. They all thought it was very unprofessional.

I think there is WAY too much cussing in public these days. A lot of younger people do it to show off, thinking that it's a cool thing to do. Walk down the halls of just about any high school these days and you'll see what I mean. It's like they are posturing for each other.

We adults are guilty of it as well, so maybe we need to clean up OUR acts, as well.

[PackerBoy]

The "Save the Whales" Star Trek movie did have some pretty funny dialogue.

[SuziQ]

To my complete surprise, they actually stopped.

Good for them! Maybe their Mamas DID instill some manners into them that haven't been lost.

[don-o]

My name is don-o and I cuss.