substitutes for swearing?

Question

I need substitute words for swearing a teenage girl will use

I can cope with the swearing but her school wont!

Answer 1

yeah "sex and travel" and "see you next Tuesday" - you work it out !

Answer 2

I'm not sure this is the right way to go about it, purely because the teasing they will receive from their piers hearing "oh fudge", will out-way the satisfaction of you not hearing them swear.

Alternatively, let ur child know how much it offends people and when not to use it, and most importantly WHY! Offer the substitute words but it will only encourage bad language!

I hope my views were help-full

Answer 3

It depends how confident she is among her friends, but she could think up her own, completely ridiculous ones. This way she is in control, her friends won't think it is weird that she is trying to stop swearing (if she replaces it with something funny) and it may even help to calm her down by realising how daft she sounds.

Something along the lines of:
wobble - as in 'oh wobble!'
banana - 'banana it!', 'banana me!'
philistine - 'philistine that!'
Garibaldi - if she is avoiding blaspheming too
swivel - 'go swivel on it' (as an insult)

I also like the other persons suggestion of 'Damage', thats a good one.

Answer 4

I recommend swearing in a foreign language. It means something bad, but no one else knows, so it's OK, right? I curse in Chinese all the time. It makes me feel better and no one understands a word I'm saying. Try it.

Answer 5

if she needs to swear let her use the real word whatever word she feels appropriate to use, substitites are worse than the real thing they say im swearing on purpose...she has to think of a response, its not an automatic oh **** that hurt - just teach her most situations dont need swearing it doesnt matter what words she uses if someone takes offense to a word it's them that have the issues...todays word is poontang

Answer 6

Swearing?

why dont you try praying and reading the bible which says "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh"
When you give over your life to God and renew your mind the swear words will naturally dry up!

Answer 7

although substitues swear words are still swear words, they are often less objectionable and therefore somewhat more appropriate

I have heard teenagers use:

SNAP (usually as in "oh snap") they seem to like this one

there is the ever popular

FLIP , like it's cruder cousin, it can be used in every sentence and every part of speach. "the flippin flipper better stop flippin with me or I will totally flip him up" (ouch)
[FRICK is a variant]

Answer 8

Knock-kneed, buck-toothed, crosseyed, pigeontoed, hump-backed, bow-legged, hard-headed, and any number of highly descriptive, slightly deprecatory, strung-together, misapplied and brain-busting adjective perjoratives. The more intelligence it takes to conjure these up and get them straight, the more the aggravating circumstance which precipitated their invocation is defused. It'll sound like a mix between Red Skelton and Yosemite Sam; but hey-- it works... "Try it--- You'll like it."

Answer 9

Blaggard, I always find has a nice comic value... P.S foxyfox says bugger, but you may know this is a swear... bit like f**k but more like an animal! Best not to use that I expect.

Answer 10

Fricken

Answer 11

How bout when she stubs her toe, she shouts out: Oh drat! Oh what a silly puddin I must be! Doggon it! Ouch, that smarts! Tisk tisk! How's that sound? And don't forget: Jeepers!
By the way, those are NOT the words I use when I stub MY toe! HA HA HA!!!!!!