@maturin1919 What you don't know.

@maturin1919 Yes.

@maturin1919 "irregardles" is a bad word. It drives me fucking crazy.

@JimG Well you will have to do something about it, won't you.

@maturin1919 Intent, that is what makes a word good, or bad, the intention of the person speaking.

Normalize a word and it isn't bad anymore. When I was a kid my mum would scream at me if I said "bloody" or "what the hell" etc. I never understood the problem and still don't.
Interesting sidenote though. When I was maybe 4 yrs old and testing the boundaries having learnt a few words, my dad had a great idea and warned me whatever happens, never ever say the really really bad word "washbasin". So I uses to sneak downstairs when they had posh friends over for a drink, pop my head round the door, shout the bad word and run like the clappers ?

@maturin1919 that is basically what I taught my kids. I also insisted that they know the definition of the word, so they could use it correctly.

I took the mystery out of the words, made them less shocking.

@maturin1919 I did, and I am surprised that you are asking. Well here it goes. The question was, Do you often use profanities, and I don't I don't like them, I don't use them. What is the point in talking to someone if every second word is a profanity (bad word), it takes away the joy of conversation, gets in the way of and makes the communication unimportant if someone has to swear all the time. In my eyes I lose respect for people who has to do it all the time.

@Salo A swearword is still swearword, and the problem is just that, you normalise it.

@Jolanta a swearword is a word that somebody(s) in the past decided that according to the ethical standards of the time was bad/impolite/harmful/blasphemous/disrespectful etc. Whether those labels/attitudes still apply to the word in question is always debatable and we all have to choose where we draw a line. There are words I won't use, in the main ones which convey an abusive, harmful or degrading attitude or opinion (think racist/sexist), but a word that's bad just because it's bad? It's a nonsensical outdated concept with quasi-religious undertones and I'm not buying any of it.

@Salo ok, you're saying that because it is "outdated ". It is now ok to use swear words. That is exactly how we are normalising the issue. Is is so difficult not to swear?

@Jolanta there's nothing to worry about normalising. Some people say we can't eat meat on a Friday (or some food related nonsense along those lines I forget the details). If I say that's outdated, illogical or irrelevant and go get a steak would you criticise me for assisting in the normalisation of something that should be frowned upon and avoided? I can't see a difference. No it's not difficult not to swear. It's not difficult to just have fish on a Friday either. Let's just go along with it and perpetuate the stupidity then.

@Salo There are things in this world that should be left alone

@maturin1919 Shitload of wankers, the fucking lot of them.

As Bronn said, there's no cure for being a cunt.

Context matters

Yarrrrrrrr

Indeed. Very versatile.

It can be a noun (he is a right fuck), an adjective (look at the size of that fucking thing), an activity (we fucked all night; I'm going to fuck you up), an oath (fucking hell), part of a multitude of insults (you and the camel you rode in on can fuck off), and wrapped into a larger word (fuckstick, fucktard, fuckface) amongst its many uses.

I love the word, could not live without it.

thank you so fucking much for this fucking awesome vid!!

@JustKip as are many people. I do not see it as my place to hurt anybody, whether with words or otherwise.

@JustKip I can't disagree with that!

The Good Place, maybe? Mother Forker?

@Mikestr The Good Place? Is that a good show? It was not mother forker, but I like it, too.

@JustKip I was dating sailors in my youth. Every boy I knew went to sea They all came back saying fuck whenever possible, but it does not have the same impact in German.

@Spinliesel that's because when they are out to sea all they think about is fucking. That's why I joined the air force. Unfortunately that's all I think about to when I got out.

@MrChange These were merchant marine boys ( I lived by the North Sea) Those guys think about money and leave the horniness until they have shore leave. Well, you may be right. They were young man and full of hormones.

Most interesting answer. If I may ask, what changed in 1974?

@Jthurston2 ...until(maybe) the 90's, using vulgar expletives in normal conversation was considered crass and without-culture, basically low people... ...in 1974, I snagged a position in which I was working a lot with professional and higher-up management...I had to either, manage my knee-jerk language to fit the company I was in, or train myself out of using any language not acceptable to my audience as a whole...I choose the latter...
Later, as I became more familiar with and appreciative of sexuality, I decided that using sex words as expletives and negatives was not appropriate to their literal sense...i.e. to fuck is a positive joy....to use it in a negative sense is juxtaposed to my primal sense....

For those too young to remember the 80's and 90's so clearly...common use of profanity in conversation was initially used for shock value...today of course, there is nothing particularly shocking about hearing happy words in a negative context every day, every where we go...