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Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim
(www.theguardian.com)
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It comes up a lot more in professional settings than it used to. I would actually give this one to GenX and appreciate it when used correctly.
Gen X broke down the gate, millennials buried the gate, and Gen Z built a monument to swearing on top of where the gate once stood
That's fucking glorious!
Unalive and the k word would like to have a word with you about gen z
But that’s not a swear or curse word. The swear words are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits, damn, sonofabitch, goddamn, ass, asshole, bastard and other plays on those words.
And I’m pretty sure the unalive thing came from TikTok pulling and censoring videos with the word kill in them.
I see a LOT of censoring all of those words from younger people who grew up with tiktok tho
I'd say it's still not great to use in most professional settings, with the caveat that every environment is different. I'm not gonna be clutching pearls if I do run into someone that's more liberal with their curses, but I'm not going to be spouting off myself.
I will still continue to fight swearing if I can.
Why have you chosen this hill to die on? Swearing harms no one, and makes talking more fun. I honestly take an aversion to swearing as a sign of immaturity.
The fact that you resort to swearing is immature. I ask the people I'm around to not swear and the people that know me know my thoughts on swearing.
Resort? That's a weird way to put it. I don't even think about swearing. Sometimes "fuck" is just the perfect word for the job. Hell, pretty often it is, because the word "fuck" is so versatile. Nothing beats the literal poetry of a well placed word, and face it man sometimes that word is "fuck". Fuck fuck fuck
Get fucked.
How would you do that
I ask the people around me to not use such harsh language. Most people are more than happy to comply
This is harsh language that offends me. Stop using it
By punching it. If you hit a word right when it's coming out of someone's mouth, you can hurt the word itself