QUOTE 'swear word n. An obscene or blasphemous word'. esp. uttered as an expletive. Ok I dont want this thread to turn into a list of examples, but I'd be interested to hear your views as to what makes a swear word. What is classed as an indecent word or what offends you, in your view? Are some words acceptable in some cases and not in others? Just use upper case first initial to signify which word you are referring to. Notice from BuffaloHELP: Title modified.

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For the most part, I don't consider most of the "bad" swear words different from regular words. In my regular day-to-day speech I utter profanity without even thinking about it.

I consider lots of non-swear words to be much more offencive than certain swear words. For instance, I don't consider the f-word to be necessarily bad if used as an adjective, though speaking about sex and stuff can be innappropriate at times, depending on where and when you are talking. When I am in a public eye, such as posting on forums here, I try not to use profanity because it is thought of as offencive to a large amount of people, but when I'm talking with my friends and stuff (would have said the 's' word there if I was speaking aloud to friends, i.e.) it's different.

So like I said, I consider using regular, non-cuss words, as having more potential for being much more offencive than the use of swear words. For instance, people so blindly describing as something as being gay in a negative aspect pisses me off more than calling someone a b-word or something. I'd much preferred to be called an a-hole or something than be called gay in a negative fashion.

But yeah, Sorry this post is a bit off topic. What defines a swear word, to me, is any word that is offencive to others.

 

 

 

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A word's just a word though, right? I don't put any more emphasis on swear words than normal words and I don't get the emphasis placed on "protecting" kids from swear words, finding them offensive. Kids are going to hear "swear words" wherever they are. I mean, what's the difference between words that mean "poo"? They all mean the same thing, right? So why isn't poo considered derogatory, and the others are? There are a few different letters, certainly, but what makes society more receptive to "baby words" like poo when other words are only a few steps away? I'm assuming somewhere in our evolution, expression has become somewhat censored and the necessity to use swear words is coupled with one's moral de-evolution. But why would that happen? Who really cares? Words are only words.

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As far as I am concerned sware words are any words that you should not say if you were to talk at a business meeting. To me sware words are any word that is a one size fits pretty much all insult. Words that are used to get around swaring at home and school are also sware words because they are representing the sware word.

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the fcc has already defined this....haha but i know parents, when bringing up their children have their own.

i got in trouble for saying "shut up". that was BAD whenever my mother heard those two words and it wouldn't even matter if i wasn't even talkin' to 'r

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Shut up I don't think is an innapriate word. Swear words have no purpose in this world yet are used everyday. Everyone is exposed to them, but they have no purpose but to harshly insult another person. Some words I am not sure if I would call swear words, but are definitely borderline. Mainly it just depends on how you use it. When you use the word He**, I have no problem with someone describing the place, but any other meanings are too cruel. They are typical words when you think about them. You say dam if you are talking about a beaver dam. Nothing is funny or bad about that. You are technically saying the word. It all just depends.

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When I was in like.. fourth grade, I believed that shut up was a bad word. It kinda is, being that it's rude. So I try not to say words like "stupid" or "shut up." I don't count words like "darn," "rats," or "shoot" to be swear words. I don't think anyone does. Swear words, to me, are s**t, c**p, b***h, f**k, and any combination of those words.

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If you can't say the word during a conversation with your Pastor/Preacher/Reverand, it shouldn't be used in everyday speech.
That's the way I see it.

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I look at it the same way. If you can't use it in a conversation with say a teacher, or someone respectful then I wouldn't use it. Doesn't have to be a swear word necessarily but that's my view of innaproprate words. There are also better terms for many of those words anyway that might be accepted but you know you still probably shouldn't go around using them anyway.

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As soon as someone swears my attitude towards them changes. If you want to swear do it around people you know well but not in public or to the waitress as it sometimes happens. I feel people who can't help themselves from swearing, are too weak to control themselves I myself do not swear but that does not mean that my friend may not swear around me. If they know me, then they can swear but not in public.

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