Because the cunts at social media companies want to censor every fucking thing. I don’t want to swear, but I am forced to do so In order to fill the chasm left by any large company deciding to be thought police and robbing us of our ability to use colorful language.

Also the way words “retard” and “retarded” sound is funny, so I opt to use them any time I need to refer to someone or something stupid.

It’s even weirder when people self-censor memes , posts, and whatnot. Like F*CK. You’re allowed to swear on the internet, people!

Because swearing was strictly forbidden in my household and i picked it up in late high school and early college partially as an act of defiance.

I made friends also more interested in content and quality of thought than on politeness and that was dope AF.

Now it’s part of my lexicon, just a casual turn of phrase.

“Ay yo, that shit is fire” conveys the same sentiment as “Wow! That’s really cool.”

I’m a mechanical engineer and a writer. Words are words. They have meanings and those meanings change over time and with context/audience.

People who don’t ever swear feel repressed to me. It’s a weird vibe. Not a fan.

They are used to it and if you try you can get used to it too.

Fucked if I know.

Hey! Not sure if anyone’s still here, but here’s a serious answer:

TL;DR: everyone perceives swear words differently, and swearing can be used for purposes other than to insult someone directly

Swear words serve a purpose in language just like every other word. People, or at least many English speaking people that I’ve encountered, tend to consider rude language/swearing to be superfluous speech, words that can and in some cases should, be removed from the language. That’s a misconception. The point and purpose of swear words is to be taboo and rude. If these words didn’t exist, they would likely be substituted by something else, because from a sociolinguistic perspective, our society right now has evolved to need a linguistic way to express the things that are conveyed with swearing, even if it’s really bad things like racism, disdain, threats of violence.

Now, one of the interesting things about swear words and rude language in general is that everyone perceives these words with a different severity. Some people feel comfortable with saying “cunt” for one reason or another. For example, Australian and British English speakers tend to be more comfortable with that word than American English speakers. For other people, even minced oaths can be considered rude, such as saying “darn” instead of “damn” or “fiddlesticks” instead of “fuck”. It could also have to do with background or identity, like women calling each other “bitch” can be considered less severe than a man calling a woman a “bitch”. Or someone who’s deeply religious could object to the use of “hell” while someone who isn’t might not even consider it rude.

Lets get back to the purpose of swearing. Swearing can have many different uses, such as showing you’re part of an in group. Imagine a group of women working in a auto body shop together for example. In order to signal to each other that they’re comfortable around each other, they might refer to each other as their “bitches”. But that doesn’t mean that a customer can come in and say “hey bitch I need new headlights”: they’re not part of the group, they haven’t earned that privilege. Swearing is also a rite of passage. Adults get to swear, but we consider a sign of a good upbringing in the English speaking world as a child that does not swear. Throughout all these uses, there’s a through line of flaunting social expectations. Swearing can be used to damage and berate and humiliate, of course, but a lot of swearing is done with subtext. “Hey, you’re my friend, this is a relaxed environment, of course you’re not going to think when I say a rude word that I’m insulting you” or “I’m feeling such a strong emotion right now that the only words that fit that are very rude”.

I also think that as our society moves away from more structured and rigid social roles, swearing is getting more acceptable since we in general are more tolerant of deviations from the norm.

Edit: I’ve obviously only scratched the surface, since this is a broad and complex topic.

I mean, even Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales poked fun at the nun for her frequent oaths “by saint Loy” IIRC.

Because fuck you, that’s why!

Swearing Is Good for You

Swearing is like yelling. If you do it often it lessens its effect. My father in law yelled all the time so if he yelled it was just par of the course. My brother swears constantly in casual conversation. I yell or swear and people take notice but not many have witnessed it.

As I understand it, shit, piss, and fuck were common words in Old English. When the French-speaking Normans invaded the Anglo-Saxons, they made the people and their language lower class, crude and dirty. Defecate, urinate, and fornicate were substituted as the proper way to speak. This was a way to continue oppressing a conquered and occupied group of people. These views have persisted for hundreds of years and been adopted by various groups over time. Something to consider when you find yourself viewing the words others use as crude.

Based on this history, you might also see why saying “pardon my French” is ironic as fuck.

Who the fuck is asking and why the fuck should I care if they care?

Because we grew up poor.

Laws that turn swearing into legal liability are a form of class warfare.

Why not? Why is it not normal for you? Science shows it reduces stress. Lol

Swearing is actually normal for all people. Any word can be classified as a “swear” or “bad” word. That’s how language works. There is nothing wrong with using a word that is deemed a cuss word. The actual “bad” part is always the context the word is used in. If you smacked your foot into a chair accidentally and you called the chair a Bastard, you used the expletive correctly. But if you walked into work one morning and walked by your boss and said to him, “Good morning you Bastard.”, that’s going to get you in trouble. The context matters.

You can make any word a cuss word in the context you use it. You can ask a person if they like Bananas, “Are you a banana eater?”. Or you can accuse a person, “What kind of a sick banana eater are you? What is wrong with you?”, ‘banana eater’ is now a bad phrase/thing.

Context in language always matters, regardless of the taboo of a word/phrase.

Words only have power over you if you let them. Language is to be used, enjoyed and laughed at.