A nag from the resident prissy schoolmarm...

[senseandsensibility]

Whatever a marm is, I totally admit to being one, though. And so, I just thought I'd put in my two cents for not swearing on the boards.

Of course you can do as you like, but I find that he constant repetition of the "f" word makes it lose whatever impact it may have once had. Besides, it shows a lack of precision and imagination.

It's boring, and it reflects badly on DU.

End of nag. Carry on.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Given that Chaucer used swear words too, I find myself in good company

[senseandsensibility]

4. I don't remember you swearing.

link, please. Anyway, surely Chaucer used a little more variety....

[Sarah Ibarruri]

15. I do, I do. I try not to, but they just pop out of my mouth (or my fingers).

Can't help it. It's like a sneeze!

Not to mention that I'm sure Chaucer had quite a bit more erudition than I.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. I totally fucking agree with you.

Seriously, it's way the fuck out of hand.

[senseandsensibility]

3. Lol

I was asking for that one.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. I blame Ernie Anastos, for the coarsening our culture.

It takes a tough man, to make a tender forecast.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Well H-E-double hockey sticks...

...I KNEW you'd be the first to spoil a good schoolmarm thread!

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Are you kidding?

Wouldn't miss it.

[pinboy3niner]

12. I had an in-law who used the hockey sticks euphemism all the time

Drove me to swearing loudly and often.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. It sounds very Flanders

Very Flanders, indeed.

[LumosMaxima]

7. I agree.

Sometimes I see a thread here that I'd like someone in my real life to read, but I don't send a link because of the language. I have a few people in my life who are really bothered by bad language and they wouldn't be able to overlook it and learn from the thread.

[senseandsensibility]

16. That's what I'm saying.

I don't feel comfortable with that either.

[Rex]

8. Shut The Front Door.

I like the creative alternatives coming up in pop culture.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. At first glance,

I thought he was wheeling a loaf of bread.

[Rex]

13. Wheeling or wielding?

Welding?

[Warren DeMontague]

19. Smelting

He who smeaolt it, deaolt it.



Nasty hobbitses.

[Rex]

22. Ah, British warbands.

Steven Tyler never looked better!

[Warren DeMontague]

31. "all these lines, in my face gettin'.... ah, who the fuck am I trying to kid"

[name not needed]

26. This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!

[OilemFirchen]

11. Intercourse that noise.

[cyberswede]

18. !

[adirondacker]

14. Obviously not a Bukowski fan.

My Mom hated the word. She never read Bukowski either.

I try and use it sparingly, but it depends on the crowd I'm around.

[Sissyk]

17. You know what gets to me?

The posters that say, Don't type out fuck. Type f&%k. Don't type out shit, type chit or st.

Really? Do you read it any different? No. You still read it fuck and shit no matter how you type it out. Same with any other curse word.

That always makes me

[Warren DeMontague]

21. I like when people won't say "porn", but say "pr0n" instead.

Yes, yes, don't want the NSA to put you on the "porn" list!

[Sissyk]

23. lol!

Yes, that one too!

[Rex]

24. Ah kids these days, back in my day we just called it pron.

pr0n...

[adirondacker]

25. I recall the first time I saw that and thought it was some kind of fish. beware of pr0na !

[TeeYiYi]

27. I suspect Agent Mike has already added pr0n to 'the list.' ..nt

TYY

[Ed Suspicious]

29. I think that started as a work-around of early 2000s banned words lists in forum software.

porn would be auto-edited out so we used pr0n.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Makes sense.

Mmmm, Jumbo pr0ns.

[pinboy3niner]

32. Now I feel really silly

All this time I thought it was the past tense of pRy.

[pipi_k]

37. Thank you!!!!!!

I was going to say the same thing.

There are some people who won't even type out the word "crap".

No, it's "cr@p" or some such silliness.

Bullshit.

If typing out a bad word (and I'm only talking about the everyday naughty words we hear all the time) is so horrifying to someone, then that person should think of another, more appropriate word.

Don't wanna type out "shit"? Fine...there are other words that can be used....manure, excrement, guano...

But don't even THINK of using "poopy" unless it's being used as satire.

[Sissyk]

38. I approve this message!

[lumpy]

28. I'll go anong with that.

[Skittles]

33. you want I should kick your prissy schoolmarmy ass, senseandsensibility?

LEMME AT YOU!

[senseandsensibility]

35. No thanks

Just change the a word to posterior and we're good.

[WillyT]

34. Schoolmarms Are Hot...

[Bluenorthwest]

36. I think the prissy, controlling crap is what makes DU look bad.

If you think the danger in language comes from words like 'fuck' you are part of the problem.
The folks who oppose the way others speak need to come up with a more imaginative and original trope than 'it lacks imagination' because of the fact that the most imaginative and brilliant writers often type 'fuck' with abandon. Hard to accept that the international legendary literary icons lack imagination while you have stockrooms full there at the one room school house.....

[steve2470]

39. Y O U ' R E = you are, not your

my main pet peeve.

[snooper2]

40. I don't think you really understand the word at all, this should help

[CBGLuthier]

41. I always find it astounding the power in these 26 symbols

Arrange them certain ways and people get all flustered. I think of the time Lenny Bruce was arrested for using the word "cocksucker" and he said, "I didn't do it man, I just said it."