Swearing Poll

[slemslempike]

A poll on swearing. If I have left out your favourite word, or the whole thing offends you, tell me so in comments.

ETA: Argh! WANDERING around, I know this really! Bloody uneditable polls.



[Poll #435675]

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I completely missed the 'How old are you?' question. 27, for the record.

(I just got a big huge server error on e-scrabble.com. Everyone's Friday afternoon entertainment of choice, it seems.)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Damn them! The game will have to be spread out then.

[jekesta]

If you click where it says the Poll number up at the top and then click on fill out poll and you can edit your answers and tell us your age yay:)

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

A nice long exclaimation is "hellfire and damnation". I don't believe in either, but it's hugely satisfactory and comprehensive to say.

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

oh, or buggeration.

Bugger didn't get on there at all, incidentally.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Oh, bugger! Seriously, I wish I'd thought of that. Would have been interesting to compare with the others.

[birdsflying]

I was about to say but you've missed out 'bugger' (and all it's derivitives!) and what about swearwords made up from a combination of other swearwords and/or normal words.

Possibly another poll is needed for what is your favourite combination curse etc. :g:

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I forgot to put "wank" in as well - dammit.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

You also missed out (for parents) the "not applicable" alternative... some of us are older than other people. Some of us are the parents of adults (Heaven help us and them).

[br0k3nsoul.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is, I don't like swearing, but I end up doing quite a bit of it because my mother swears so much. When she found out how I speak when I'm driving she was quite proud of me.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Heh. Apparently my mum used to swear something chronic when she was in uni, but when I was growing up I thought she didn't know bad words. Now I know different...

[stellanova.livejournal.com]

I swear a lot, but never without being slightly annoyed - I can't see why I would, otherwise. So while I probably say fuck, shit, and bollocks every single day of my life, it's usually because I'm cross about something.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I've noticed myself using swear words when I want to be more emphatic, and I think I might want to watch that before I find myself telling my grandmother that her present was "so fucking cool!"

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Oh my! No like putting age as 20-25, for eeek! Big ages are made to seem closer, yes. Tumti tum.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

But you're early twenties. I am heading towards mid twenties. Mid. Ugh.

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

you wait until you find your self suspiciously near LATE 20s...

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

When my children were very small I made up (or borrowed) words that felt like swear words to me for use in front of the very, very young. Like shazbat (borrowed I think from Mork and Mindy) and bordigals (acquired from Rodie Sudbery).It lasted fairly well for a few years but then I slipped back into bad habits. In fact when my youngest son was 7 he regaled us with a list of all the rude words he knew such as "the F word" "the S word" etc. We were baffled for some time by the "R word" but it turned out to be arse. A particular favourite of mine.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Heh - I love that! The R word.

[krazymazy.livejournal.com]

I didn't say which words I consider "swear" words, cause, well WE make them "bad." I don't know. It's all semantics. My parents have always let us cuss, so... yeah. Good times. =)

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Now, where I am coming from is South Welsh of a good many decades away, when "Hell" nd "Devil" were both taboo and replaced by "Blazes" (and when "sick" was in every sense a four letter word). But on top of that I ended up with a French education, which left me very confused about what used to be termed "Anglo Saxon expressions" because none of them had anything to do with Anglo Saxon (aka Old English) but all had French, and indeed Latin, cognates.