Why do people think adopting swearing into your vocabulary make you sound intellectual?
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I don't think anybody actually thinks that. I don't know where you got that idea. Ideally, it's just a casual way of emphasizing a point.
I'm sure the people who think it makes them sound smart are pretty stupid.
To paraphrase a philosopher: 'he who swears doesn't know and he who knows doesn't swear'
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To paraphrase a philosopher: 'he who swears doesn't know and he who knows doesn't swear'
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Swears enphasize points, being intellectual is elequantly insulting someone horribly without need for swearing e.g's:your as sharp as wet leather or your eye's are as good as a badger with cateracts.
no cursing but effective insults.
no cursing but effective insults.
Swearing can be used to make the opposition feel stupid or to assert your authority over the argument. It can also be used for light humour or defence when the argument is not going your way respectively. People think swearing just encompasses the typical angry 'RAAAR FUCK YOU FUCKER RAAAR' attitude. This is not the case. Swearing can be very useful to emphasise a point. Say you say something ridiculous, like "pigs could one day grow wings and fly", i would say something like "You're trying to tell me they could evolve wings? What the fuck?" and the bit at the end would serve to emphasise the ludicrousness of what you were saying. If you want a bit of light-hearted use of swearing, you could say 'Holy shit!' or something similar in a surprised tone without having to sound angry or demean the other party. I tend to say 'bloody hell' for many things; surprise, fear, anger, joking around with mates... you get the idea. Personally i don't know why people seem to gush at swearing. It's become synonymous with everyday conversation in most cases anyway except when you need to be formal as a part of our desensitised society.
Because when people use big words and, small difficult words, their peers make fun of them. So instead of talking about how draconian their teachers are for assigning homework for spring break, students will say;
to quote Steven fry
"Swearing is a really important part of one's life and it would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enoying swearing
there used to be mad, silly, prissy people who would say swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary as such; utter nonsense! The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies!"
all hail the fry
"Swearing is a really important part of one's life and it would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enoying swearing
there used to be mad, silly, prissy people who would say swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary as such; utter nonsense! The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies!"
all hail the fry
it's all a part of the language, just don't go overkill on the matter because you'll end up a retard and possibly identified with one of the stereotypes
The only argument I've ever heard is that swearing is the sign of a lower intellect or smaller vocabulary.
In the words of Stephen Fry: "Utter nonsense! The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies!"
In the words of Tim Minchin, in The Pope Song, about the speech in which the pope protected the priests that molested church boys: "if you don't like this swearing that this ************ forced from me, and reckon it's just moral or intellectual paucity, then fuck you, ************, this is language one employs when one is fucking cross about fuckers fucking boys."
In the words of me: "It's fucking ridiculous. Swearing is fantastic; just a little slip of a word can cause such shock to the prissy, stuck up and backwards morons that are still so pathetic that they're offended by mere words, and it can make you feel so much fucking better when you're angry or just need to vent."
In the words of Stephen Fry: "Utter nonsense! The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies!"
In the words of Tim Minchin, in The Pope Song, about the speech in which the pope protected the priests that molested church boys: "if you don't like this swearing that this ************ forced from me, and reckon it's just moral or intellectual paucity, then fuck you, ************, this is language one employs when one is fucking cross about fuckers fucking boys."
In the words of me: "It's fucking ridiculous. Swearing is fantastic; just a little slip of a word can cause such shock to the prissy, stuck up and backwards morons that are still so pathetic that they're offended by mere words, and it can make you feel so much fucking better when you're angry or just need to vent."