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angelikaJ -> RE: Texter gets kicked out of theater and leaves (profane) VM (6/7/2011 4:02:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: HeatherMcLeather
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the ones that want a job tend to modify their language rather sharpishly. TA DA!!!I've underlined the operative word. They change their language. And you working with teenagers isn't a measure of how they speak when there is NO adult around. The mere fact that you are there will alter the way they talk.
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On my side of the pond this kind of swearing is seldom heard from people without previous convictions or previous convictions waiting to happen. I doubt that, what is more likely to be the case is that when you hear this sort of swearing you automatically assume they must be people with previous convictions or previous convictions waiting to happen.
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A person who can't express him or herself without the use of profanities, I think there's something seriously lacking in the brain department. Really? Make sure to tell Hanners that the next time you're responding to one of her posts. I'm sure she'd love to hear how she's mentally deficient.
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Might sound like an old foggy to you and I guess for you everybody above 30 is, but it's the way it works You do sound like an old fogey, and no, chronological age has nothing to do with it. I have told you, based on many years of continuous extensive personal interaction with young people when there are no adults around, that they swear all the time, and they do so from around the age of 6 on (though the words used are different). And yet, you continue to insist that this just isn't so, based on nothing other than a vague sense of personal superiority. You insist that only ill educated criminal types talk that way. That's what makes you sound like an old fogey. You see, to my mind an old fogey is a person who pretends things were not the way they were when they were young, and clings to these prejudices in the face of evidence to the contrary.
Well, I must be downright ancient then.
I did not say the word "Fuck" until shortly before I turned 20 and I did it as a request.
It took me 10 minutes to muster up the courage to utter it.
I never did cuss much as a teen and never when I was younger.
My parents did not openly cuss, nor did theirs (and no, I did not grow up in either a particularly strict, nor religious family).
I went to a regional public school system of 5 towns and maybe heard the word Fuck half a dozen times (if that) junior high-graduating high school.
I do swear now and then, but it isn't a habit that is central to me and those words are reserved for 'special occasions'.
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