Comments on: #101: Don’t Fear The F Word

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:18:00 +0000

When a word can and does replace half the words in the language, it has no meaning. I don’t depend on the F word when I don’t have anything to say. I also try to avoid “uh” when I can’t think of anything to say.

By: Noah

Noah — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:39:18 +0000

I’m 27 years old and male, so maybe this will come as a surprise to some people, hearing me say this, but I don’t use the F-word. Ever. I don’t consider it a sign of being young and hip. I don’t consider it a mark of being free to express myself. When I hear it, I think how unfortunate it is that the person who said it couldn’t think of any other word to use.
I’ve noticed a big increase in the use of swearing – and of the F-word in particular – among people in general and especially young people even since I was a child which, given my age, I think is really saying something. I see younger and younger people swearing frequently and it makes me very disappointed. When I see eight or nine year old children using the F-word, I can only think “What are their parents teaching them?” But I get even more upset when I see an “older” person using that kind of language because I think they should know better. That is, I know they were raised not to talk that way. It certainly doesn’t make me admire them for being “cool”.

By: Jakelin

Jakelin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:03:26 +0000

yea, its passed the point of being bad and is now just the only word that can be sooo many parts of speech, personally from my point of view (14) I think if anyone gets mad about bad words its just stupid, even with lil, kids, I’m hoping that eventually *bad* words will be a thing of the past. I meen really it’s dumb cerating a word just so you can be upset if people say it, such an evil parentish thing to do (wayyy back when the first cave mom told the first cave son you can’t say this word because it’s bad…) As long as the meening of the word isn’t horible it shouldn’t be considered bad,
I meen if it has a worse meening than like, sex or poo, then you could get upset but really shit and crap are the same thing but the fromer gets adults SO much more riled up then the later.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:51:30 +0000

We took our 8th grader with us to see Bill Mahr this weekend and Bill probably said the word “fuck” 200 times during his show. Our son was in heaven, just to get to hear that word so much had him falling out of his seat. Not something I had planned on being in the show, but oh well. Pam has it right, it’s just the way it is now and I need to get over it!

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:25:01 +0000

I got kicked out of the local Red Hat Society group for saying fuck! it’s my favorite fucking word in the whole fucking English language ahahahaha fuck yeah!

By: Pamela Redmond Satran

Pamela Redmond Satran — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:09:23 +0000

I am a Catholic girl too, Patika! And yes, I think we learned that the F word could get you excommunicated. I’m glad to hear you’re not teaching your ESL students properly.

By: Patika

Patika — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:04:25 +0000

Having attended Catholic grammer school I did not curse. I remember my cousin telling the world that he’d heard me say ’shit’ when I’d actually said ’shoot.’ After tranferring to public school I said ’shit’ on a regular basis. I now use the F bomb frequently while driving in the tri-state area. I’ve also been known to use it when describing the disgusting mess in the 3rd floor bathroom to my co-workers. Seriously, who puts layers and layers of t.p. on the seat and then wads up a ball of t.p. in the center of the t.p. collage? But I digress. In closing, the F word is a noun, a proper noun, an adjective, an adverb and a verb. At least, that’s what I tell my ESL students.