Swearing or cursing is the stage where every child has to learn all over again the difference between right and wrong. The decision might be swayed by peer pressure, home life, or media exposure. Swearing is an unintelligent and quick way to express emotion or to seem cool. Also when and if your child swears, how you can address it without making the child feel worthless and insignificant compared to their siblings or others. It is hard to determine whether the child will make the decision to swear or not, but if they do (like I did), these may be the effects of this unintelligent decision. When a person swears or curses it effects the way people view them. You may admire a person and think that they are intelligent and can articulate their feelings, but in the moment where they may use foul language, the view of the swear-er may change drastically. Or when trying to impress a date or someone you may be interested in, cursing could ruin the opportunity for that relationship to blossom into something more. More often than not, when someone will swear it will only put off the others. The way to mend this problem is to consciously evaluate yourself to make sure that you don’t swear. At first it may be very difficult, swearing becomes something of a habit and to reverse it will take more than sheer will-power. Positive reinforcements from parents or someone of authority will help more than anyone can know. Kathryn Hatter, journalist for the Global Post states, “The beauty of positive reinforcement is that it teaches and motivates specific behaviors by using items or activities that appeal to your teenager, states Shannon Baranski, psychology professor with the Houston Community College. Instead of punishing your adolescent by taking ... ... middle of paper ... ...atter-Day Saints, 2014. Web. 11 Feb. 2014. . O'Connor, James V. "Business Edge, Volume 2, No. 21." Business Edge, Volume 2, No. 21. The Business Edge, Apr. 2000. Web. 11 Feb. 2014. . O'Connor, James V. "Cuss Control, The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing, James O'Connor, Improve Relationships, Job and Career." Cuss Control, The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing, James O'Connor, Improve Relationships, Job and Career. James V O'Connor, 2009. Web. 11 Feb. 2014. . Riggio, Ronald E., Ph.D. "Will Swearing Harm Your Child?" Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, LLC, 18 May 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2014. .
Swearing has the ability to get someone in a whole load of trouble at the dinner table with their mother but could also be their choice of words when they accidently stub their toe on the coffee table in the living room. Natalie Angier discusses this controversial topic of words that shouldn’t be said in her article feature in The New York Times, “Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore”. Provoked by a recently proposed bill to increase fines for using swear words on television, Angier analyzes not only the impact of swearing, but also where the desire to speak obscene words comes from. She references many credible studies and sources as she unfolds her argument. She uses a diverse slew of studies, experiments, and famous pieces of literature and
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The first point I’d like to make is that profanity is far too prominent in the television and movies we watch and the music we listen to. Lyrics with “swear words” are no stronger, nor any more passionate than lyrics with other strong, emotionally charged words. Some may argue that a character who swears on television may be “properly portraying the average American usage of profanity,” but let me ...
...es not turn our society toward violence. There are other possible solutions though, like making a list of words that are indecent, meaning offensive to community standards. This would illiminate harmful curse words that are derogatory.
Shanley holds a largely negative stance on the issue; she insists that swearing in front of kids was like “splashing red paint on a delicate painting.” With the help of imagery, she paints cursing as language with dire consequences and tries to convince her readers to avoid hurting children. On the other hand, Bergen supports the idea that cursing isn’t seriously damaging to children. He reminds his audience that despite the research supporting the negative effects of slurs on college students and middle schoolers, there is no study that proves that general swear words have an adverse effect on children (Bergen). By proving that there is no scientific evidence to back the claimed damage, the writer proves that swearing in front children is not as harmful as initially perceived, directly contradicting Shanley’s statement. Although both sides provide different evidence, they both directly contradict one another when it comes to describing how cursing affects
Have Curse Words Become So Common They Have Lost Their Shock Value?Curse words started being used in school and are used against one another, but now students talk as if there is no meaning to them.In my opinion I think that curse words are used too much because, curse words are supposed to be used when you are mad, they are used in every sentence, and people curse everyday.
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If a person curses it is only because they have nothing really important to say. A person's words can define a person but words are words especially curse words. A curse word is just another word an expletive to use like “ow” and “yay!” “Cursing can indicate that you have an extensive knowledge of words” as stated in the article “Science Proves That Swearing Makes you #!$%ing Smarter” by Paul Seaburn. Marist College and Massachusetts College of liberal arts did a study to prove that curse words are just typical words. In the study the patients had to list as many curse words as they could then as many animal words as they could. There were more curse words listed than animal words but each patient had a sufficient number of animal names. The study also found that the people who curse did know the difference between a cuss word and appropriate words. “A voluminous taboo lexicon may better be considered an indicator of healthy verbal abilities rather than a cover for deficiencies” (Seaburn). So the statement an unintelligent person has nothing good to say is a total misconception because smart people curse
How can I ever forget a time when I said a swear word in front of my mom. I was at the grocery store shopping with my mom and cousin. I was already upset because I got in trouble at home already. My cousin just kept messing with me and making fun of me and I just told her to “shut the fuck up.” Don’t you just hate those nagging little cousins that laugh at everything? I tried to say it as low as possible but my mom has ears like a hawk. Man I swear I never got slapped so hard a day in my life. From that day forward I swore that I wouldn’t say any swear words ever. Do you ever wonder where swearing words originated from? Or even people views on how they feel about them? Barbara Lawrence has an issue with swearing words because people use different terminology such as: “Broad”, “chick”, “piece of tail” and other sorts of harmful words to downgrade women. Bill Bryson on the other hand says that swear words are merely considered bad because they are considered bad. A similarity that both Lawrence and Bryson have is when they mentioned the word “ficken”, which is a German or Latin word meaning f***. The difference between the two are that Bryson explains the different words the Romans created and used over 1,500 years ago and Lawrence explains that some
There are still people that go to church and don't cuss and cares about there family vale and try to keep that away from their kids as long as they can.they want the censor stuff for there kids.Cursing
For this assignment, I chose to abstain from the use of profanity. I chose to give up profanity because it is something that I know will be difficult for me. I also chose this particular activity to give up because I associate my use of profanity with a very hard time in my life. Since that time, I have worked very diligently to be a better person and to erase the aspects of the person that I used to be. By giving up the use of profanity, I will be able to start erasing another aspect of that person that I did not like very much. One reason why abstaining from the use of profanity will be so difficult for me is because of how long I have been using profanity. I started using profanity at a fairly young age, probably 5th or 6th grade, and since then I use profanity every day, multiple times a day. I think I started using profanity because in the 6th grade my mother had a stroke and during that time I felt like no one was listening to me. My family was very wrapped up in my mom’s care and I felt like I was being forgotten about. I remember one day in class I used profanity in front of the whole class and my teacher stopped what she was doing and addressed my profanity use in front of everyone. At that moment, I realized that by using profanity I could get attention. In the past, I have tried to abstain from profanity; however, it has never lasted very long. I remember one time I was able to abstain from profanity for about a week. However, once I started using profanity again, I realized that trying to stop was a lost cause.
We live in a world where any type of swearing or cursing is ubiquitous. It is almost impossible to not hear a swear word when in public places or even at home. Not much can be done about the swearing situation as it is sometimes seen as a rebellious act or as an intensifier that adds no meaning but adds an “emotional punch” to any utterance. Swear words, especially the “F-word” and words involving sexual terms or racial slurs are looked down on. People using swear words are seen as uneducated, vulgar or low class people. Swear words are often attached to stereotypes when it comes down to who swears the most between men and women and gender roles come into play here. This will be explained and described further into the essay. Many people get offended by swear words, no matter what age, but that is because everyone has a different offensiveness threshold. One word that is offensive to one person may be the word used regularly by another person.
Have you ever wondered who taught you to talk the way you do? People learn to talk and express themselves everyday of their lives. Starting from the day you were born you used language or some form of it to communicate with those around you. As a baby you usually show your displeasure with your new surroundings by crying, and if you don’t the doctor will make sure you do. Everyday we express our point of view to others in some form of language. Whether it is through verbal communication, written discourse or through body language, you can tell if a person is upset, angry, or happy. We as human beings don’t realize how much language has to do with our lives. How can you determine if one of your friends is angry with you? Is there a different tone to their voice? Do they have a stern look on their face? Of course they do, your friend feels the need to express their anger to you by these different forms of language. Where do we learn to use these different forms of language? How are our uses of these languages shaped? The three main contributing factors to how we express ourselves through language come from our schooling, our friends, and most of all from our families.
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People might think that violence discipline the kids and prevent them from arguing with their parents and following their orders without even asking. I agree that it does discipline the kids only when they are young but as they start to grow up it all turns upon the parents who should have known that a turning point in his or her life would come where they treat their parents the same way they treated him when he or she was young. It also does not help him or her to give out his opinion on any matter in which he or she could give a better solution if it was a problem for example. In addition, if a parent tells him or her to do this and not do that without any explanation, one will not know the reasons for such orders.