Can you remember swearing as a kid, nowadays it seems the norm for children to use bad language, it's on TV...

Question

all the time, I don't mind it so much but when i'm around my parents house and they say th "F" word on TV, it makes my dad cringe, he's nearly 70, is it the age we live in?

what realy p*sses me off is when your in a public place and children are around and loud mouthed adults are swearing at the top of their voices, I feel embarressed not only for the kids parents but for the loud mouths using the language

Answer 1

Lol.

The reality is, people scream at children for underage sex and swearing. If their allowed to watch this kind of TV and everywhere you go, people boast about how good sex is, can you blame them? Its like sitting a rasberry jam cake down next to a 2 year old and boasting how good it is, theyre going to want some too!

I hate swearing and underage sex and teen pregnancies BUT they aren't unprovoked! TV just screams out for irresponsible, insecure teenagers! Some fall for it, some don't!

Answer 2

I never used to swear when I was little, and if I thought of saying anything like 'bloody' in front of my parents I'd get a whack on my head - and you know what, I am not in the slightest traumatised as the government said a child would be! My parents would say 'don't swear until your voice breaks, and a lady wouldn't swear at all!'

What I hate is women swearing around their children, that is just unreasonable. My dad does have appaling language but my mum would tell him off for it and I have just learnt that girls don't do that, and even if I see a girl swearing I think it's just wrong. Maybe if TV stopped showing so much bad language we would stop it too, it'd be a nice little experiment.

Answer 3

I never swore as a child and, what's more, I don't remember ever hearing anyone else around me do so. My parents certainly never used bad language. I suppose if you choose to mix only with people who have the same values as yourself you will only hear the sort of language which you find acceptable. I only started to hear bad language when I entered high school (I had previously been at a private 'faith' school) and, probably, during those early teenage years thought it was fun. However, I have to say that since that time I have never used (and do not even like to hear) foul language and especially have never used the now ubiquitous "F word", not even as a teenager when everyone else was using it freely. I have always had a love of GOOD language and find English a very rich source. I like to think my vocabulary is broad enough to express myself and communicate without recourse to obscenity. You may call me "old-fashioned" but, in fact, I am in no way a prude - not even old enough to be called a "fuddy duddy" - I just feel that such low terms of expression are beneath my capability or dignity. I do use very much milder terms - usually for humorous effect and in a relevant context - but doubt these would offend anyone today. I cringe (understatement!), however, when I hear the way children and, of course, so many adults routinely speak today, their conversation literally punctuated with ugly swear words.

As regards TV, I think it has been the singlemost influential factor in the lowering of standards by virtue of its presence in virtually every home. It used to be a respected and authoritative medium until the "slippery slope" of permissiveness created a monster. Now, any type of speech, behaviour or lifestyle which is permitted to be broadcast (is anything NOT permitted nowadays?) serves only as an endorsement to the viewing public. The "slippery slope", once embarked upon, can only go in one direction - down. The habitual occurrence of bad language on TV is now no longer shocking as such - rather boring, tiresome and unimaginative. What a pity.

Answer 4

The first time the word "damn" was used in a movie was in 1939, Gone With the Wind. I think the first time, or nearly the first time that was used on television was Archie Bunker of the 1970s. I was 21 before anyone in my family EVER said "F**K" in front of me, including my father who was born in 1912 (he cussed a lot, but never more than da*mn, hell, sh*t, bast*rd, etc., and was a US Navy man from WWII. Look how far we've come? Isn't it great (not) that rap can say just about anything imaginable and it is on radio stations for anyone to hear. My mother never went to another movie after "On Golden Pond" and she was no prude, but it finally got that old people couldn't, or didn't want to go to Disney movies (Mom born in 1914), because of the filthy language and crude subject matter.
So now we have it. The F word is everywhere, nearly all the time; it's considered OK on the radio and I assume in households that enjoy rap music as well.
It will get worse. Freedom of speech and all that. The Dumbing Down of America, as Steve Allen wrote, is certainly upon us.
How many teenagers know anything about the US, like the states, and capitals, the history (real history, not the history of your political party, sex, or racial background). Answer: not many. Not many can spell, or use proper grammar.

And what's worse is NOT MANY parents care, either. The ruling elete will get smaller and smaller; more and more powerful, and the poor and ignorant will get poorer, more ignorant and probably the gene pool and evolution may eventually even make them plain stupid.

And there isn't a hell of a lot you can do about it unless you start with your own mouth; and teach your children.

Answer 5

No I don't really remember swearing that much as a kid. I am sure I did when I was a teen; however it must have been rare because I never slipped out around adults and swore.

I am much younger than your dad and it makes me cringe when I hear people say it too.

Answer 6

"Bad" words are cultural. Intrinsically, no words are "worse" than others. It amazes me that people still care about such things.

We can't use certain words that describe bodily functions, but we can use others words that describe the exact same things.

Words like torture, flay, behead, slaughter, etc., are all considered okay, though.

Sometime in the past someone decided that certain words are not "polite," and successive generations have mindlessly gone along with it.

I just don't get it.

Although, to be honest, some words that used to be considered incorrect in "polite company" are now acceptable. For instance, the word "pregnant" was considered "impolite" - a pregnant woman was said to be "in a family way."

I have never seen anyone give an objective, as opposed to a subjective, reason why some words should not be used "in polite company."

Answer 7

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Answer 8

No I did not nor do I swear.
I never ever heard my parents swear, even though my father had been in the navy and they are known to have a 'colour-full' language.

My memory of Plymouth, Devon, is of more people than not swearing, really bad swearing, some with very small children with them. Every other word was f***ing this and f***ing that, my ex sister-in-law was one of the worst.

Answer 9

I can clearly remember the first time I EVER hear the 'F' word. I was about 11 and a young man on a bike rode past, looked at me, said the one word and rode on. Weird.

We said blimey, which was considered swearing. or maybe sugar. I was told off for saying sugar because it was not what I said by what I meant. I was nearly 16.

Answer 10

It is the crudening of the culture. Mainstream media is primarily to blame, but also the FCC for failing to revoke licenses.

A lot of people today don't realize that they are embarrassing themselves. They really have no shame.

Boorish behavior has become acceptable to a lot of people. A few decades ago they would have been shunned. Nobody would want to be seen on the street with someone who screamed obscenities, but today, a lot of people don't see anything wrong with that.

Remember, mainstream media is not a reflection of our culture, it is the force that molds it. That's why you find our worst degenerates in the media.