AIBU to think ‘Fart’ isn’t a swear word.

[Toddlerteaplease]

Aged 44, my mum had told me off for complaining that their cat farted, when sitting on my knee. Apparently fart is a swear word. 🤣🤔

Ahhh I see. You are asking if I’m an immigrant?

I can assure you that “shit” is not an uncommon word in the English language. Possibly it’s more common in the countryside (as is shit being talked about because dogs roll in it, animals produce it and piles of it have to be managed)? But no, I don’t think you have to be Dutch to use the word shit. How funny.

I wasn’t allowed to say fart as child, but my mum doesn’t care now that I’m an adult!

I guess it depends on your definition of swear word. It’s probably not something that you would say in polite company.

What, even if it was a silent one?

Now that would just be silly.

I think what the poster means is that if you saw it in a news article, for instance, some of the letters might be blanked out or with asterisks instead, which would indicate that it's an offensive word to some

I take great delight in telling American Trump supporters online. That trump is a more polite word for fart in the uk.

The wild asterisk and other punctuation marks instead of swearing or rude words isn’t something particularly prevalent in broadsheets. I think more The Beano or Mail/Sun. Purple nonsense, and more a sort of faux gentility than a real indicator of what is “swearing”.