I curse too much. I curse pretty much all the time. When I was a kid my mother said that only people with a bad vocabulary curse but that’s not true because I have a very good vocabulary. I just use a cursing word to put strenght behind what I’m saying. Of course I know how to talk seriously and mature when it’s needed. It’s not like I use a lot of cursing when I talk to really old people or on a job interview.
Quite frankly the swedish cursing words are lame. Most of them has to do with the devil. Words like “helvete” = hell, “fan” = the devil, “jävlar” = devils, “satan” = satan, obviously. What’s so ugly about those words? Of course once upon a time in a distant past when the majority of the swedish people actually were christians those were horrible words. But now? I think other languages have a lot worse cursing words. I’ve heard that insulting peoples mothers is quite popular abroad. Nobody says things like “motherfucker” in Sweden.
A while ago there was a discussion on some rotation site about wether members of that rotation should be allowed to curse in their blogs, or something like that, I don’t remember the details. I say that if someone who really find that offensive visit my site they can always leave. If anyone find anything at my site offensive or just dislike me as a person they’re free to leave. After all this is my site with my opinions and my writing. I don’t censor myself to be appealing to a larger audience.
Do you curse much? Why, or why not? Do you find cursing offensive?
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Thanks for the supporting comment,I just had a huge argument with my sister again…oh well.
I used to curse alot,but nowadays I don’t do it so often anymore…dunno why.
I only find it offensive when someone uses an extremely foul language or sexist expressions…
This blog entry reminds me of the discussion I had with a Finnish friend of mine. My partner and I are looking at moving to Finland and I was asking her about what life is like over there. One of the things she told me is that while Scandinavians are known for being “foul-mouthed”, they use really tame swear words. The Finns don’t even have an actual translation for the word ‘fuck’.
Being a New Zealander, I have a pretty colourful vocabulary and I use it quite often. And unless the curses are being directed towards me or being extremely derogatory towards anyone else, I don’t find it offensive at all.
I think it’s silly that the odd curse word can get you kicked out of a rotation.
I don’t usually curse, but I don’t get offended by it in general. Sometimes I think it can be, I guess it just depends on the conversation. Casually though, it doesn’t bother me at all.
I think it’s a little ridiculous that people were censoring their blogs for others. If I pay for my site of course I’m going to post whatever I feel like. And I agree, if people don’t like something about it they have the option to leave.
I hope you’re doing well.
Take care.
Haha, i ‘tried’ to read the first blog, then noticed the blod.. then i was like..hahha. as i was like 2i dont think this is english..”
Anyway, i curse too much, i say it when i dont intend on it.. i mean it rolls off the tongue if that makes sence, but not abusive/rude curse words..
I agree with the webspaces that are doing that with the censoring and all.
I dont mind what i read, your just expressing yourslef in a diffrent way.. who cares these days??
Anyway, take care x
the absolute majority of maltese people swear (there are actually two different levels – the bad wording and the actual swearing which involves the badmouthing christian saints, which is considered pretty bad as most people here are fanatics URGH!) check out the maltese section on the insultmonger site xD quite a good laugh! Cursing comes out naturally sometimes for me – of course depends on the situation!
Jodå, mamma-förolämpningar finns det gott om i Sverige också. Men det beror väl på var man bor. Bor man i en förort till Stockholm har man hört fler varianter av “din mamma…” än man kan räkna.