To ask people to stop swearing so much

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Frankly, the language of some of the posters on this site is disgusting and I wonder if they talk like this in front of their children. I also wonder if their parents would be proud of how they post on the internet. Swearing every time isn't big and it isn't clever. It makes people come across as uneducated chavs.

AIBU to ask people to clean up their act and stop swearing?

Here you go OP swearing in Cornish

Fuck off = Kyj dhe-ves (Pron: kidge the VEAZ)
arse-hole = toll-din (Pron: toll DEEN)
kiss my butt = amm dhe’m gwenn (pron: amm them GWENN)
the cat’s fart = bramm an gath (pron: bramm an GATH)
your mother’s vagina = kons dha vamm (pron: konz the VAMM)
you idiot = ty wokki (pron: te WOCK-y)
suck my dick = sug ow halgh (pron: seeg o HALH)
baldy = penn-blogh (pron: pen-BLOH)
by the fucking Devil = a-barth an Jowl a gyj (pron: a-BARTH an JOLE a GIDGE)
dick head = penn-kalgh (pron: pen KALH)
go an penetrate yourself = re’th omlansyewgh hwi (pron: reth om-LANS-yowh hwee)
go fuck yourself = re’th kyjyewgh hwi (pron: reth KIDGE-yowh hwee)
I’m fucked = dogluthys ov (pron: dog-LEETHE-yz ov)
Do you want to fuck me? = A vynn’ta ow dogluthi? (pron: a VIN-ta o dog-LEETHE-y)
I love wanking = Da yw genev omwari (pron: daa ee-w genev [hard g] om-WAR-y)

Basic words:

Penis = kalgh (pron: kalh)
bumhole = gwenn (pron: gwenn)
bottom = tin (pron: teen)
cunt = kons (pron: konz)
tits = diwvronn (pron: DEEW-vron)
fart = bramm (pron: bramm)
fuck = kyj (pron: kidge)
to fuck = kyjya (pron: KIDGE-ya)
to anally penetrate = lansya (pron: LAUNCE-ya)
wanker = omgyjyer (pron: om-GIDGE-yer)
wanker = omwarier (pron: om-war-EE-er)

Excellent post with Cornish swearwords. I suspect, however, that people called Gwendolyn living in Cornwal may not be particularly pleased about their name being shortened.

Oh dear, I'm a 58 year old retired lecturer with no need to impress, Lass.
As has been pointed out, if you're avoiding people for using the dysphemic, you are rather limiting yourself

I'm 58 too. I'm a partner in one of the largest law firms in Scotland. A fact as irrelevant as knowing you are a 58 year old retired academic.

Having had the unpleasant experience of a drunk screaming at me that I'm a fucking cunt I'm happy to avoid such people.

The fails to impress comment was actually addressed to the poster who thinks people divide into her cunt using chums and those who are shocked. What that poster seems to not get is that it isn't shocking - it really isn't. It is just a bit tedious - a bit ooh look at me being all edgy.

I'm still puzzled however how you square thinking cunt is so wonderfully empowering with the fact that usually it is used on MN as a gender neutral insult.

I am shocked - yes, shocked and amazed I tell you - that anyone with would call you a fucking cunt. What would they want to call you a fucking cunt for? It really does beggar belief that you'd be called a fucking cunt. In fact, I can't stop thinking about someone calling you a fucking cunt.

I'm 58 too. I'm a partner in one of the largest law firms in Scotland. A fact as irrelevant as knowing you are a 58 year old retired academic.

Only if you totally ignore the context of the entire content of this thread.

No matter how one might want to retrofit comments as only applying to one particular poster and one specific part of the conversation, unless you actually express them in those terms they tend to be taken in the context of the broader conversation that is happening.

That is, when you say 'when I hear people say x, I think y of them' people will tend to take it as meaning what is actually said.

Cos people are bastards like that. (My first swear of the thread!)

I am laughing as I type.... a lawyer too.... but I don't think it relates to earnings or income. My parents didn't swear, our mother said it was a sign of a small vocabulary and I don't swear and my children don't. That works fine for us. I am not impressed when people do swear and think they lose the argument before they have begun on MN if they have to resort to a swear word. That is what I think of them. Other people have different views.

Thankfully free speech prevails and they can swear away but I do hope they realise what some people will then think of them if they do swear. They may not care less what people think but do be aware they will come down in the estimation of many others if they swear.

I suppose in the same way as people's estimation of those with pearcings, tattoos, brightly colour hair or being overweight.

That kind of bollocks?

Lass, reclamation means I can use the word as I choose. No, I'm not keen on it being used to tell women they're breeders or to let men know that they're only as good as a breeder. However, with the addition of depth and warmth, not quite so bad. Personally, I hate the word Crepuscular, I'm aspie, so the 'feel' of it in my mouth isn't right. It's grim, in fact. Ridiculous, I know. Oh, and to make my head feel that it's exploded, using ,myself, in the wrong context; 'come and see myself or one of my colleagues'. Aarghh!

7461Mary Judge away dear, I judge you too. Studies clearly demonstrate that dysphemism is useful and indicative of a wider vocabulary. Your mother was wrong.

According to that link to the swear list, 'dick' is a strong swearword. I had no idea, I regularly call my DH and DC dicks, I thought it was the equivalent of wally. Oops.

My parents didn't swear, our mother said it was a sign of a small vocabulary and I don't swear and my children don't.

Ah, Mary, but your mother turns out to have been wrong.

I find the use of the phrase 'resort to' swearing interesting and I think this may actually be where much of the difference lies. Some see it as an extreme - something you use when other language fails you. Others see it as a normal part of their lexicon and use it as such, meaning it is no more a sign of having run out of arguments or ideas than using words and phrases like 'extremely' or 'such a nasty person'.

So it isn't actually the words, but the emotional impact that people feel the words signify, that people are responding to with their 'judgements'. And as with any case of people inferring what others think/feel, there is significant scope for error.

The word "chav" is nasty, judgemental and prejudiced.

Well, if swearing is a sign of low intellect and a limited vocabulary, how is it that I can strew cunts and fucks like rose petals in my wake and still have this?

Swearing every time isn't big and it isn't clever.

And I always thought I'll be really big and clever saying Fuck. Silly me, thank you for pointing out the error of my ways.

Yes, people decide what they think of others on all kinds of bases. Many of us think less of people who swear. Plenty of those who swear could not care less about that so that's fine, as long as they know what others think and don't think it's okay by everyone.

Many of us think less of people who swear.

Which is interesting, as no one has been able to advance a logical reason for why.

I think less of those who have irrational prejudices they are unwilling to question or examine, so there we are.

Thinking less of people who swear? I am amazed if a fully grown person truly takes offence at a word unless of course it is used against them. How childish and prissy! Miss Prim and Proper.

Many of us think less of people who swear

Goodness me, someone who doesn't have a clue who I am thinks less of me.

Well I am well and truly reprimanded. How very, fucking dreadful.

7461Mary18

Yes but your mother was wrong, time you realised that.

as long as they know what others think and don't think it's okay by everyone.

1. I really dont need to or want to know what some random person thinks of me on the internet because I drop the occaisional 'fuck' into the post where it is needed .

2. If you cant get past the odd swear word in a post and read the whole post and understand it then your intellect is more lacking than mine. Its just a word same as all the others in the post, you need to read them all to understand the point of it not just one word then dismiss it. Sometimes the op is so freaking appalling/unbelievably gobsmacking that only a swear word will express your reaction properly.

3. When someone can come up with a rational explaination as to why grown adults on an adult forum should not be able to swear then we just might consider it, until then its just all self important, 'I am better than you' prejudice.

Many of us think less of people who swear
Frankly my dear...

Well I've had a work week from hell and all I can say is thank fuck it's Friday.

Anyone else imagining 7461Mary smirking in a smug, superior fashion as she demonstrates that she has a smaller vocabulary range than those of us who use profanities? Or is that just me then?

When someone can come up with a rational explanation why they think they're better than anyone else give us a call

They're not better, they're just naicer.

I'm not in a penis waving contest here. I don't care if people think I have a limited vocabulary. Perhaps I do. I don't like swearing and I don't swear. I would not censor people who do although websites do have rules which allow them to (I've written some of them).

I said I was from a family of non swearers so I was giving a reason - culturally our family does not swear. Another reason people might not like others who are very rude to them is just simple being kind to others or not as the case might be. I think you can argue your points without descending to swearing.

A third reason if you get on a bus in most cities and listen to some people talking particularly the more intellectually challenged and listen you might well hear someone where every other word is the f word - I went to the f pub and then I saw my f sister and then on and on and on.

See, cock waving contest would have sounded better, alliteration innit?!
Malcolm Tucker is the best creation I have ever seen. His filthy mouth played a huge part in that. His creator Armando Iannucci (masters from Oxford) got an OBE for contribution to broadcasting. YABFU