Noticed not many people use curse words.
So… why the fuck not?
FUCK YEAH!!!
The common “curse” words like “shit” and “fuck” are pretty impersonal. They can signal an escalation, but are typically pretty minor. They don’t even do that when the speaker is like “I just took a huge shit. Don’t go in there for a while”
Other words, like racial slurs and anti-queer stuff, invoke more history and violence. If someone calls someone an asshole that’s probably not that big a deal. If they call someone a n-word f-gay-slur, there might be a hate crime about to happen.
So I don’t use those words. I don’t want to bring the stuff they import into the scene.
People who are the typical recipients of the slurs using them themselves is a related topic I’m not very qualified to speak on, and I wouldn’t try to police their language.
Consensus? You’re asking the fediverse for a consensus?
Yeah, no idea what OP expected.
My two cents is that swearing with people you don’t know might lead to misunderstandings, so probably it would be best to keep that shit to a minimum.
If it is needed I will use. Otherwise not.
What the fuck do you care cunt?
Why the fuck not?
Beep!
Squid_Slime, you are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.
Oh noo so sorry here take take my money just don’t ruin my social credit
It makes me laugh when some people give certain words magical powers. They are just fucking words for Christ’s sake.
Given the way humanity works, words generally do and should have power (“profane” or otherwise). If they don’t, what’s the point?
On profanity, to me it’s a set of special words to break out for emphasis. If I just casually use them, then they lose value as emphasis. If those words were just as mundane as others, what would be the point of their existence?
Agreed.
They’re not “magical”, they just have meaning and connotations.
But certain words DO have power, even if it’s just power attributed by others it’s still power, and it’s really naive to think they don’t.
Agreed. Words are what made us different than animals and words describing abstract ideas made us better than other primates. Words are maybe the strongest power we have
You are frequenting an incredibly select number of communities.
Also, discussions tend to be more respectful here than on low bars like reddit, so crutches like swearing don’t come into play as much.
In my case, my f****** speech to text won’t f****** write out the c*** d*** c*** swear words, which I think is hilarious.
I think there’s an option for that…
I assume there is, but the asterisks make me laugh every time, like when Aubrey plaza has her mouth blanked out every time she swears at Scott Pilgrim
Check out the fucking cunt whose fancy fucking transcription software turns out to be a steaming pile of bullshit that won’t even pick up basic fucking words like cum guzzling knob goblin.
eta: Merry Fucking Christmas.
It’s a f****** feature, not a bug, you twat cock. Hm. Twat cock’s fine.
Murreh crizz-mats
I’d be having fuckin words with that speech to text program
I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit. – Mel Brooks
Consensus? This your first day on internet or what?
Because I can get my fucking point across without them
This is the internet. You can say “fuck”
You may often be understood quite well even without using harsh language in every fucking sentence.
Infact, refraining from using harsh language increases the impact of it when you actually need to for some god damned reason.
So please, consider using some bloody restraint, and only curse when you actually shit ass need to.
I hope that this comment has cleared it up for you, have a lovely new year!
Nah, fucking throw that shit around like it’s Tuesday.
Cursing and not cursing will both get you pretty much no reaction here.
But… if you self censor curse words with f*** or s***… some lemmings lose their $#!+!
Fuck off.
Fuck on!
Like Mr Miyagi said.
“fuck off, fuck on, fuck off! The fucker!”
