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Article #311Re: Why Do People Have To Curse & Swear?
From: gman99
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:13
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:13
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"Christine Davison" <Christine Davison@Eastlink.ca> wrote: > gman, it is somewhat difficult to explain. Yes culture is a learned > thing, but in my culture it is rude to yell at your family members and to > act aggresively in public.This is similar for most cultures, you will > find. Language, even though learned, is all about communication, trying > to connect to another person, conveying thoughts and emotions, and most > cultures have different forms of niceties that surround language. These > niceties are there to protect people from becoming offended and to deepen > relations between them. Swearing, in our culture, at loved ones, and > strangers then, would in the very least be an extremely ineffective way > of communicating. On the contrary, swearing at someone may be a way to get one's attention...to convey shock, dissappointment....any number of different emotions. It is definitely cultural based...different words mean very different things even between provinces within Canada. Personally, I'm not offened by language. There are far more offensive words in the english language than fuck or shit...how about nigger or wop ?? I find these words far more offensive....and I'm white, anglo-saxon...
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