To think that it is unnecessary to swear?

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It just shows a poor vocabulary

What other possible respone is there to "AIBU to think that it is unnecessary to swear?" than to swear heartily??

Another karma here. I like swearing too. I just find certain words incredibly good at expressing my feelings succinctly. I could use other words to convey the same sentiment, but expletives say in one word what would normally need about 12!

From Withnail & I
"Monty you terrible cunt, what the fuck are you doing sneaking round in the middle of the fucking night?"

If you cannot appreciate the perfectly balanced beauty of that sentence then frankly you are doomed.

Chaucer was very fond of cunt. The word cunt. And probably the cunty bit of the anatomy too.

Swearing is both both big & clever.

As is smoking.

Fact.

SOME PEOPLE SWEAR ROUTINELY. i SWEAR FOR COMIC EFFECT.

lubberlich

Anyway OP - your position is fallacious, how can limiting certain words be indicative of a small vocabulary??

Surely I have a wider vocabulary than a non-swearer??

They could not, for instance, employ the phrase, 'Fuck me, the fucking fucker's fucked'

Thereby showing erudite & concise use of language.

I think one of the funniest uses of swearing is in 4 Weddings and A Funeral, where HG has routinely been saying "fuck" throughout, until he's in the crypt (or wherever) of the church in which he's about to get married, when he "tones it down" to "bugger" instead - always makes me laugh, that!

And there's really nothing quite as satisfying as the collection of letters/sounds in words like "bollocks", "fuck off" etc. Sod is too bland, imo - rarely gets used.

I defy anyone not to enjoy yelling "wanker" out of a car window.
I drove past a man in a BNP Enoch Powell t-shirt a while ago and just couldn't help myself. And I did the wanker sign with as much gusto as a white-van delivery man.

WAAAANKAAAAAAH.

Wanker. Bollocks. Arse. These are the words that made Britain great.
Apparently the Queen Mum's favourite swearword was tossjam.

Apparently research was done on the effect of swearing on the person swearing and also on their audience. Basically swearing is cathartic and relaxing for the person swearing but actually causes very mild levels of anxiety and increased heart rate for the listeners.

So for that reason I try to limit swearing. I think it's mostly habit.

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And as Billy Connolly said, "You show me the English equivalent of fuck off, and I'll happily use it. It certainly isn't go away "

Flipping heck, darn, sugar etc just don't cut it when you've stood on a 2 inch tall toy elephant that has tusks and everything, or when you nearly do the splits because you've stood on thomas the tank engine, or stubbed your toe on the coffee table or sliced your finger open or cracked your head on a door handle/open cupboard.

Only a great big "Fuuuuuucccckkk!" does the job, even when 3yo DD is in ear shot.

I don't swear as much as I used to but I don't have a problem with other people swearing. Fuck, cunt, shite etc just slip in like regular words in my conversations. Doesn't mean I'm thick or stupid. And it doesn't prove anything about my vocabulary.