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.)

[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.

[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.

[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.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.