Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Swearing and other profanity: Lazy speech or credible communication


Swearing and using profanity has become our nation’s favorite way of communicating our feelings. Whether someone is expressing to someone how much they love a person or how much they want to f*ck someone up, curse words is a way to express this. Most “curse words” are considered to be vulgar, rude, or obscene in the context in which many people use them. Depending on what kind of group you’re around, using cuss words can be found disrespectful.

            There are some cuss words that can be used to insult a person such as calling a girl a bitch or calling a person a dumbass. These have become very common in everyday language though and are no longer seen to be insulting. Women are now embracing the fact that people think they are a bitch. Another cuss word that was once considered the “worse”, is now becoming used more and more by the younger generations. Fuck is one curse word that many people did not want to hear let alone let their kids hear it, but now it now has a very common use in everyday conversation.
 So now the question is, is profanity lazy speech or credible communication? Many people have different opinions on the answer to this, but I think its lazy speech. I personally do not use cuss words in an everyday conversation. I am around it a lot, but that does not mean I have picked up on all of the bad habits of using profanity. People have become use to using these words though because of the people around them using them, that it is a part of a lot of peoples vocabulary. I’m not saying that people should stop cussing, because it doesn’t really bother me, I just think people should try to use different words to broaden their vocab.

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