My religion really frowns on profanity, cussing, etc. And people come up with interesting substitutions. How many "fake" swear words do you know or use? Please list.
2007-09-21 07:14:46 · 22 answers · asked by Senator John McClain 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry Nolte, I'd **** it out, but Y!A doesn't let me. I'll try to be more careful in the future. :-)
2007-09-21 07:19:11 · update #1
Chuck biscuits - Sorry, I'm not. I'm really looking for a list. I think it'd be fun.
2007-09-21 07:19:55 · update #2
I have a friend who uses the names of obscure towns in Nevada. Like if he gets fouled in basketball, he yells, Battle Mountain, or Hawthorn!
2007-09-21 07:30:16 · update #3
Siar - I think the difference is the connotation verses the denotation. They may all mean the same thing, but they invoke different feelings. There is a difference between the thoughts a person has when they here the terms making love, sex, and f**king. Words themselves are meaningless, until we give them meaning. If you say f**k to a person who doesn't speak any English, he/she wouldn't consider it vulgar, but the speaker still would.
2007-09-21 08:22:25 · update #4
A whole flippin bunch. Dad blast it all, I had better get back to my gosh darn job before the freaking pshyco boss finds out and gets all ticked off and then wiggs out on me. That would totally bite the big one. And I am LMBO right now. (see what I did there?)
2007-09-21 07:25:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
A really deep question. In my culture the swear words are always genitalia and copulation related, and some animals, and we always believe they have something do to with the way we look at sex, and the psychology behind it is we think sex is sacrilegious; but truth be told, how did they ended up to have those meanings are hard for contemporary users to figure out. In English is much the same way. Maybe you should search the origin of the words and see how they changes through the history. Are you planning on writing a thesis on this? Maybe worth a PhD.
2016-05-20 02:06:20 · answer #2 · answered by marcy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that grammatically there is no really good substitute for a carefully selected ,judiciously employed and well aimed cuss word.
The reason is that all good cuss words are phonetically hard and a phonetically hard word can be delivered with an incredible amount of power. The polite words on the other hand tend to be phonetically soft and therefore cannot be delivered with a lot of power.
So if you somehow do manage to come up with some substitutes, make sure that they are phonetically hard words otherwise they won't work
2007-09-21 07:45:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hm......
Catfish! (I started using this one a while back)
Son of a catfish!
Son of a biscuit!
Vex (had a roommate who used it)
Vexation
Holy Schnauzers!
Fetch/fetchin' (my hubby uses that one)
Dag-nabbit
Often, I hear the F-word used as an adjective.... and it makes me sad that the speaker doesn't have a more active imagination. Adjectives are like the spices in food- they add flavor to our language.....
Which is more interesting to hear?
He's an @--...
He's an arrogant, deceitful, disrepsectful, incompetent nincompoop...
I think "fake" cuss words show some imagination.
2007-09-21 08:37:46 · answer #4 · answered by Yoda's Duck 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well im gonna argue, cause i like to. i personally think that some substitutions are fine, cause they dont create a negative feeling (sorry, i cant use cool big words like other people can, im not that smart). but some, like dang, or holy cow, dont create any negative images or anything. there are others that just feel bad, even if they're not "swear words".
2007-09-21 12:44:52 · answer #5 · answered by You Know It! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't like it when ppl use "fake" swear words, either. but what exactly do you mean when you say that? do you mean saying words that sound like the swear words? i have a friend who says "fitch" instead of the b word. and my dad sometimes just says "oh, swear words!" when he drops something or something like that.
i don't even get why ppl would want to swear in the first place, does it just make them feel cool? i guess i'll never really know.
2007-09-21 14:11:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think fake words are as bad as the real thing. Isn't it the intent that is the problem not the actual word itself?
My favorite is "peas and rice" though. I can't help but smile when I hear it.
2007-09-21 07:21:16 · answer #7 · answered by alana 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Its the anger/emotion/meaning behind a swear word, not the word itself.
If you use "fake" swear words, you are just substituting one label for another. Frig is still f**k
2007-09-21 07:22:55 · answer #8 · answered by Corvus 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yeah i really have never used swear words. I really try not to replace them either because it is just as bad. The worse that i say is oh my goodness and that isnt bad. I think i is just plain pathetic to swear it is just emabarassing and stupid. It is nt cool either
2007-09-22 17:19:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it the word the thought or the intention that causes a "swear" word to be wrong?
2007-09-21 07:20:03 · answer #10 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋