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Well first of all, it is obviously never justified politically in public.
However, if you feel the need to curse in your own home or anywhere really for that matter, no one can tell you that you cannot. We have the right to speech.
Is it frowned upon? Yes, I'd say so. In no way it is ever professional. However we are human and have emotions that need to be released.
The circumstances surrounding profanity are never good, unless it is substituting words to elate a situation, for example: The Yankees just won the %#$%&*& game!
It still does not show great taste, but ultimately it is up to the individual person. That is why we are in the United States and enjoy these freedoms.
They do say that it's good to let out all your frustration at times, instead of keeping it bottled up. I am curious to find out when profanities were created and how we came about thinking they were bad words to say.
Profane language is the ignorant persons way to get their point across.
Mostly useless.
And for all of you who are wondering . . . . . More homicides have been committed just because of what someone said.
Just my not-so-humble opinion.
Fuck no!
Yeah it is definitely in your best interest to release your emotions, otherwise you will explode all at once after such a long build up.
I believe that!
I find that simply yelling into a pillow, rather than profaning the ears of my listeners, works much better.
I always hate it when I hear people using profanity, particularly if they're using it on a playground or some such place. Do they really think that's acceptable?
No, not at all. But most people are clueless to things like this, it is just life in our society.
profanity is just language that some have chosen to consider "bad". if you get offended by a word that's your problem. By being offended you give power to the word, so in effect it is your own fault that you find words offensive or "profane". Also, who is to decide what is profanity and what isn't? Are we going to allow the "I can't define pornography but I know it when I see it" argument? I certainly hope we've moved passed that foolishness.
I, for one, am "offended" every time "god damn" is bleeped out on TV. Why is "damn" bleeped, and not "god"? You can just say damn by itself right? Profanity is just another way for one group of people to try and control the thoughts, actions, opinions, and speech of others through imposed moral superiority.
or is it poetic and you just don't approve? Who are you to tell me what language is "offensive"? It's like people saying "fudge"… you know what word your replacing, you know everyone else knows, so isn't the same power being imbued onto the replacement word? The physical sounds of the word you deem offensive are not the intrinsic meaning of the word.
Read Language in Thought and Action by SI Hayakawa. It details clearly and perfectly why words have no intrinsic meaning and therefore have no power until people imbue them with it. It's the same as thinking words have magical abilities.
I don't see why not. The usual issue is whether someone can communicate their point without it. In the typical case, this is probably true that they could substitute some other word or phrase for their choice of words. Though in some cases, I find it's pretty handy to get the point across to a broader audience than some Latinate alternative (which would be known without referencing it by a handful of people). In the actual expletive, by definition, they could not, nor would it make much sense to do so while the mind is in its state of shock, amazement, pain, etc.
Beyond the obvious paternalistic sensibility that FCC regulation and censorship of TV and radio implies, and thus annoys people like me every time a movie or song is censored, the fact that they had to be forced through court rulings to recognize "fleeting expletives" as a legally distinct entity from more casual use is disappointing at best.