Do you swear much?

Quite a bit, but not all the time.

not much

I'll be honest and say all the time. I'm trying be better about it.

fuck off, no.

define "all the time"

I worry I can't swear without it sounding forced and self conscious, so I usually avoid it, also I don't really speak to anyone apart from customers at work

I worry that I sound too posh to swear convincingly as well, middle class people swearing always sounds kind of twee and cutesy to me, though when I was at university there were some v posh (like privately educated) girls who could swear in an impressively ferocious non twee way, maybe you have to be working or upper middle class to do it right?

maybe you think too much dude

fuckin all the time, fuck ya

i love swearing

all the time. filler

like a sailor

fuck yes. it's the Australian way doncha kno.

Almost never.

Depends what you mean by swearing. If saying fuck and shit and cunt and piss and cock and arsehole counts as "swearing" then yeah I guess I swear a lot

I would say that using those words definitely counts as swearing

I swear a lot because I find bad language funny in its own right. I'm thirty years old

there's a difference between an "anger swear" (you motherfucking asshole) and a "calm swear" (this shit is good) though

the interesting question is: do you swear a lot when you are angry?

i don't find swearing funny or clever or interesting but i do it a lot, both angry and calm, probably because it's been so long since i was last regularly in an environment - social or otherwise - where it would be remotely frowned upon

yeah i do.

I use language, i dont recognise 'swearing' tbh and find it hard to take seriously cunts that do

No categories in language, its all just words maaaan *uses ethnic slur in context of sandwiches*

you are privileging yr use of that supposed sandwich denominator over mine in that example smh

Rarely in person, rarely in my writing. It's never felt natural to me. Feels... Forced.

Growing up, my mom was prone to swear wen agitated, and my dad has, as far as I know, never sworn in his life. (My extended family also never swears.) I try to keep it clean and keep everyone around me calm and peaceful generally.

Whenever I'm around people who swear liberally it's always kind of a jolt.

'fuck' 1/10 word frequency speech pattern/habit i am developing

"muddafucca" isa real nice one with like a Rita-counterpart voice, like a scifi new yorker (from the bad guys on HAIM SABANS Show Power-rangerz)

i try not to laugh, but i can curse like nobody's busicnes

damn is a veryfun word to implement with an ease-into-swearing convo potna.. 1st u can slip it in, move on to shit if something weird, or unexpected. say "fucken" if u emphatic and pretend it slipped, or say move on to sarcastic "fuck you"'s

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all the time. i love it i have to say.

Quite a bit, but less so than I used to, mostly because it's lazy, but also because I'm trying to use more precise language.

When you swear all the time, it diminishes the power of a well-deployed swear at an appropriate time.

But also, as I have stated before many times, the swears one reaches for most frequently say a great deal about the person doing the swearing, and what person considers profane or foul. So it's always worth examining those words, whether person uses them a lot or a little.

Heck yes I do.

Woah steady on there

MODS

hard to he sure. growing up my friendship group was distinguished by very accomplished & colourful swearing. occasionally now I'll linger at the brink of swearing cuz it feels strange & I'll realize I haven't really done it for a while. suspect I oscillate between the poles of clear-eyed unswearing rational calm & those periods when it saturates my language so completely that my vicinity becomes charged w/ warm, jagged, sweary ambience

All the time.

I sometimes I have to check myself because I'm so used to doing it that I forget when it is/is not appropriate. I can swear around my parents because they don't give a shit but I've caught myself having to reign it in around other people's parents or at work. At boss at my current job says shit in nearly every sentence and dropped a couple fucks the other day but I still don't feel comfortable swearing in front of him. That said, at least I can be sort of sure that if I slip up on day he won't care.

Used to be "not much" (hardly ever in fact) and is now "quite a bit" but not to Boaby Gillesoie levels

I'm not someone who goes for elaborate, Capaldi-esque cursing, but I am sort of a "fuck"-as-punctuation guy, and (worse) have gradually coarsened my wife's language over the years (married for 20 at this point), so we're both actively striving to tone it down in 2014.

i swear a lot around very close friends, my wife, and regrettably, around my toddler son but never around my parents, in-laws, or colleagues. i've got a pretty good self-censor. when thinking things through in my own head i swear a TON

I'm pretty bad, I'm always swearing at work. No-one seems to mind though.

I can switch to non-swearing mode when I'm visiting family, as my grandma HATES swearing, even mild words like shit or crap are NOT ACCEPTABLE to her.

fairly often but not too much, more when I'm drunk, almost never in front of the kids, unless I'm drunk

I am very sweary. The first draft of this post was just a list of profanities.

the solitary nature of freelancer lyfe means that at any given moment in my working day i can probably found muttering "fuck, fuck, fucking hell, fuck" abstractedly

You bunch of shitcunts.

fuck yes

by universal standards quite a bit, by scottish working class standards remarkably little. never around my family, i somehow got into that habit and i figure it would be odd to deviate now.

Trayce otm though upthread, i think my swearing is more of a leftover Australian thing than anything. When I first met Mr Veg, we were talking on the phone and I said cunt and he was like WHOOOOOAAAA WHAT DID U JUST SAY and it completely freaked him out that I said it

my coworkers don't really swear at all but I think they're kind of repressed and they like that I do it so freely. so they tolerate my sailormouth quite well. no-one's reported me to HR in 11 years working in this office so I think I'm ok so far. I limit work-swearing to shit and fuck at the worst, wouldn't ever drop a c-bomb in polite company.

if you were south african you could have got away with it supposedly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNHzDxi73v8

Profanity-laced speech coming from others doesn't often bother me, because it's what is behind the words that gives them any power and constant swearing is just a verbal tic. For myself, I tend to reserve my swearing for moments of rapidly-escalated emotional stress. It is rarely directed at anyone. I need to be pretty pissed off for that.

fluently tbh, except at work where I suppressed it to such a degree that someone was shocked when I swore in front of him.

far far too much. I don't mind it, but it's a lack of control over the register for me: absent-mindedly f'ing here, fuxaching there & generally kinelling all over the cvnt.

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Fuck no

I thought I swore a lot until I started driving.

Swear.

I swear more than other ppl and less than others, still.

Et je vous pisse à la raie...

Constantly

Constantly to myself. Rarely aloud or in writing (unless I've bumped another sweary thread for the purpose of venting).

TITS

Way too much. I have a hard time transitioning to appropriate for speaking to retail employees language.

At boss at my current job says shit in nearly every sentence and dropped a couple fucks the other day but I still don't feel comfortable swearing in front of him. That said, at least I can be sort of sure that if I slip up on day he won't care.

I didn't think I swore a lot, but a previous workplace instituted a "no swearing" policy because of me. If anyone swore, we had to put a dollar in the "swear jar," and we'd use that money to buy wings for lunch. I bought a lot of motherfuckers a lot of fuckin' wings.

When I started my current job, I was very careful not to swear. Even though my boss swears a blue streak, I just can't bring myself to swear around her.

(At the job in between, my boss would go to hilarious lengths to not swear, e.g. "oh, ssssssugar".)

But generally, I'm the John Coltrane of swearing.

It seems to me like a valuable, though minor, skill to be able to foreswear swearing in situations where swearing earns you social demerits, or else just distracts people from the substance of what you want to say. But tearing someone a new one can be a valuable skill, too.

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fuckin beautiful

cuntish enough i thought meself tbh