Pre-Adolescent Utilization of Colorful Metaphor

[Lace Neil Singer]

Also, I was under the impression that the English swearword "Bollocks" was male. Also "wanker" and "dickhead" are male.

I call men bitches if they deserve the term, ie if they're being rude, snippy and acting like they're better than everyone else.

[Kimmik]

I can swear to make a sailor blush, but then again I was bounced around as a child from a relative that was a lifer in the army, an aunt and uncle that ran with the HA's and other relatives, so that my language can be rather colorful at times. Yet at the same time I can turn around and write a very well written article, or deliver a speech on various topics.

I have studied 3 different languages, not to count the ones that I dabbled with. I can sound like a dull text book if I wanted to but sometimes just telling someone that they are a moronic fuckoff that is as useless as tits on a boar, is just down right satisfying.

But my first memory of my mouth getting me in a bit of hot water was as a child on base telling an officer that he could go suck a donkey's dick and fuck off. I was about 9ish and it was just after my bio father died thankfully he was friends with my guardian lol..

[protege]

Oh and Red Panda, is there any reason why any of this is true? because, at least as I was taught, to use more words is to have a large vocabulary and the intelligence to use it :P and what could be more creative than "Unorganized grab-asstic pieces of amphibian shit"?

Uh, "twinkle-toed fuck pixie?"

I too have a very colorful vocabulary. Come down to my garage when I'm working on the MG, and I'll provide a demonstration

Seriously though, I don't curse very often. When I do though, it's because no other word will convey the same meaning. Other times, it's to add spice to an otherwise dull conversation. One thing I *don't* do, is let the colorful words fly when there are children about. I'm not about to get my ass kicked by an irate parent

[jackfaire]

Well I started using it occasionally when I was in the first grade after my mom and dad sat me down taught me all of the swear words I didn't know and said, "Never say these"

I didn't start swearing more heavily until I was in the 6th grade and that was because I thought it would make me sound more grown up and cool.

[ExRetailDrone]

I think I was probably around 8 or 9 when I started learning the art of swearing from my cousin. I had heard the words before then most likely, but probably not very often. I don't recall my parents swearing in front of my too much until I was older.

I remember swearing more and more as I went through middle school and entered high school. I don't remember using fuck too often until high school and beyond.

And, like the others, I also have quite an extensive vocabulary, but I can still cuss like a sailor. If I get pissed off or frustrated, and where it won't get me in trouble, I have been known to let loose a string of f-bombs and other colorful words. If I got pissed off or frustrated at work, I would hold my tongue and vent with more 'socially acceptable' words.

I have never understood the argument that only people with a lacking vocabulary should feel the need to cuss. I personally find some cuss words very enjoyable. Like Rebel, my favorite is fuck, because of its versatility. George Carlin explained it best IMO (LINK NSFW). I consider myself to be a learned person who can communicate just fine, but sometimes I just like to cuss. That is my prerogative, just as not swearing is others'.

[AdminAssistant]

George Carlin explained it best IMO (LINK NSFW).

That's not Carlin. He's talked about profanity in detail, but that is definitely not Carlin.

ETA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp...eature=related THAT is Carlin. NSFW.

[ExRetailDrone]

That's not Carlin. He's talked about profanity in detail, but that is definitely not Carlin.

Ah, thank you for the correction. I have an old mp3 of what I linked that attributed it to Carlin. Oh well, I still enjoy listening to it

[Lace Neil Singer]

If you love the word "fuck" then I've got just the song for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-qM1nwyagw

Btw, this song is VERY NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Just warning you. XD

[negruvoda]

My first recorded occasion was in front of my grandmother at about one, one and a half. My whole family uses the vulgar tongue quite frequently and I was 25 before they quit telling me: "I'm allowed, you are not".

And to the person who thinks it shows a small vocabulary, I can swear in 3 languages quite fluently. But the best is my native language. I can swear quite colorfully for up to 30 minutes without repeating myself. So don't give me that just because English has become somewhat poor in this aspect. If you have run out of new insults, try reading Shakespeare.

If you want to swear like a pro, learn Romanian. http://www.cracked.com/article_16275...-world_p2.html (very nsfw). And we are proud of it.

[AdminAssistant]

If you want to swear like a pro, learn Romanian. http://www.cracked.com/article_16275...-world_p2.html (very nsfw). And we are proud of it.

Many of my friends speak Russian, Ukrainian, or other random Slavic languages. I'm always trying to get them to teach me good cuss words.

The problem with Shakespearean cursing is that it quickly begins to sound silly, like a Monty Python sketch. That and there are often different meanings to phrases that we don't get. Example, "You, sir, are a fishmonger." (Hamlet to Polonius, in Hamlet). Unless you happen to know that fishmonger's daughters tended to be prostitutes, and therefore Hamlet is saying that Ophelia is a hooker, the insult rings kinda false.

[negruvoda]

I agree with you on the Shakespeare issue, though I have found it a handy way of derailing somebody's train of thought. My shame is that I only use them when I have been reading him recently and then forget.
As to your Slavic friends you should learn, those are wonderfully expressive languages too. And see if you can find Hungarians to learn from too.

[AdminAssistant]

I know people who speak Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian, and BCS as well as Greek (modern and ancient), German, French, Spanish, Latin, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. But no Hungarians....well, not yet. Yay for grad school language requirements!

[guywithashovel]

Someone else said this, and I think it was someone on this board, but I can't be for sure. It's about cussing, and basically it's that if you don't cuss very often, people will probably listen when you do cuss. For example, if you rarely ever as much as say "What the hell?" and then one day you really need to get a point across, dropping an F bomb would probably get everyone's attention.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

Linguistic contrast, eh?

Works for some people. Personally, curse words are just words. If they apply, they're used, if not, they're not. Easy as that.

[bunnyboy]

Ah I love swearing, probably the fact that aside from me (non-military) and my dad (Army) ever single member of my family since at least the Spanish-American war have been a bunch of sailors.

Though I also prefer to use it with the whole long and sophisticated words, such as.


example:
You know sir, I would completely agree with your assessment on how your computer is slow because of Internet Explorer, if it wasn't fort he fact that you use all sorts of file sharing programs you stupid goddamn mother-f*cker.

Of course I have been called the amazing Tourettini for some of my more longwinded swears containing such things as felching, dirty sanchez, and libertarian.