Oddly enough hearing swearing doesn't particularly bother or offend me. Frankly, I've found that it can feel really good to insert the occassional curse word when I'm really feeling it.
When I hear swearing used as adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs without discretion, I'll admit it starts to grate on my nerves and I must confess, it leaves me with a negative impression of the user of said language. I think that's the reason that I don't like my kids to be around people that are using foul language. It's not a case of "Oh no, my kid heard the F-Word! The world is coming to an end!!!" It's more that I don't like them being around swearing to the point that the language is completely saturated with profanity. I've also noticed that when young children swear, it tends to be in the more indiscriminate manner where ever second word is an expletive. Somehow it makes the kids sound incredibly uncreative, and unintelligent to me.
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Date: 2008-04-14 03:49 am (UTC)When I hear swearing used as adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs without discretion, I'll admit it starts to grate on my nerves and I must confess, it leaves me with a negative impression of the user of said language. I think that's the reason that I don't like my kids to be around people that are using foul language. It's not a case of "Oh no, my kid heard the F-Word! The world is coming to an end!!!" It's more that I don't like them being around swearing to the point that the language is completely saturated with profanity. I've also noticed that when young children swear, it tends to be in the more indiscriminate manner where ever second word is an expletive. Somehow it makes the kids sound incredibly uncreative, and unintelligent to me.