Flowers

[Ouch!]

Depends on the company, really. When I'm with my friends, I tend to use profanity rather freely. When I'm in the presence of my mother (and, to an extent, my old man), teachers, other authority figures, and people who I'm not well aquainted with, I don't use any colorful language.

I use hell and damn regularly, but I don't really know anyone, other than my grandmother, who is really offended by those words. I wouldn't say I make excessive use of profanity in any environment, though.

Besides, profane language is so incredibly versatile. I believe it was Bill Bryson who said that the f-word is the most versatile word in the English language. He has a book about the English language in which he details many of the different meanings of the word. He also traces the history of the word [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img].

[Sylvie]

smurf no. Why would I do like that?

Because all the smurfing cool smurfers do it, dammit. And all them bitches and assholes like to smurfing [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] all over the smurfing swear words.

[oddler]

I swear quite a bit in certain environments.

[Spammerman]

Not much at all, I use ass and the \
]]]]]]]bad version of fish poop but never mean, only to joke around

[Reles]

Mostly if I'm upset with someone, I'll swear just to let them know how angry I really am.

[Miriel]

I swear more than I should.

[Agent Proto]

I swear, but only when it's necessary, or something. Otherwise, I keep it to a minimum.

[Martyr]

Yeah, I do. Nothing wrong with it.

And the ability to speak does not make one intelligent, so why should an individual that chooses to swear be seen as stupid?

You start to sound poorly educated and, frankly, stupid, if you can't articulate your sentences without swearing. It's a real problem these days. people simply can't think of the words they want to use, so they insert a swear word to cover for whatever they're missing, and the swear word works.

So swearing makes you sound unintelligent, slow, and like you've got a bad vocabulary. Which is why you get a lot of minorities who swear a whole ton, and it's why you get a whole lot of teenagers and blue collar workers who swear a ton. It's because they really aren't that smart or educated or classy at all.

And don't go saying, "But I do have a smurfing big vocabulary! I'm a smurfing English student in smurfing college."
If you say that, then it's simply the case of the poor man who died of starvation, sitting in his little shack on a moldy bed under which he had 50 million dollars. The money is useless if you don't use it.

Dammit, I'm treating this like EOEO

[Mitch]

replace 'swear' with 'sweat' for many fun times

[Resha]

I think so, yeah. Especially recently. Maybe I'm just more irritable than usual. It irritates my friends, who're too good for a bad, foul-mouthed person like me ;( But I consider it as myself giving them valuable life lessons in the art of swearing.

[LunarWeaver]

So swearing makes you sound unintelligent, slow, and like you've got a bad vocabulary. Which is why you get a lot of minorities who swear a whole ton, and it's why you get a whole lot of teenagers and blue collar workers who swear a ton. It's because they really aren't that smart or educated or classy at all.

Whaaa hahahahaha. What does this imply exactly... :O_O:

You, good sir, flabbergast me.

Er, wait, I'm a minority. I meant: Yo, that [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] is smurfed up.

[~*~Celes~*~]

Whenever I try to swear in real life I always accidentally say img src="/xxx.gif">

*nods* I share your pain, Manus.

[Peegee]

I don't usually swear so when I do it's such a big deal. Possibly because I pick the absolute worst time to swear.

*shrug*

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

I try not to and I usually don't

[blackmage_nuke]

Alot, but only around people who dont give a flower