is it just me? seems like in the locker room at the club, in the checkout lane at the store, table next to us in a restaurant, you name it, more and more people are throwing in the real thing or derivatives as a part of “normal” conversation. 8 and 9 year olds using “frickin’” this or that. am i wrong to think it is wrong? one of the local radio station morning “crews” apparently can’t use normal talk either. every other phrase it seems they throw in ass, suck, frickin’/freakin’, damn, screw u or whatever. i don’t see the need.
that’s not to say when i get a bit riled or whatever i won’t rant for a moment…but i normally make sure no one else can hear.
When it’s unacceptable we just say “Aren’t you old enough to have a tongue?!” But I warn you that our threshold is very high… Of course that when we’re in the US…
Uhm, It’s always unacceptable but you can give the kids a break. In a group, everybody gets excited and it’s difficult to express yourself good with smooth words.
It’s not like that. When you are a kid, what you hear all day long sets your primory vocabulary and you aren’t in the “age” to choose the right and the “wrong” words. And words like damn and freaking are very “expressive”… they call for your attention and that’s what kids want.
Anyway, c’mon… remember how you talked back then when you were a child.
Second because everyone that replied on this thread is portuguese… so it’s also a clash of cultures.
Actually, I’m Korean, but I’ve been told I look like every other ethnic group on the planet from Hawaiian to Filipino, Navtive American to Chinese. Interestingly nobody ever mentions Korean, come to think of it probably not Portuguese either
And words like damn and freaking are very “expressive”…
Pedro, I will teach you REAL expressive words at the El Paso camp in Sept. Until then, you can PM for a list… I would post them, but I would hate to upset Jim.
I think it comes down to manners, and common courtesy. People today have little of both. It’s easy to use profanity. You don’t have to think about expressing yourself in an intelligent way. I was in a hotel in Terre Haute Friday night and saw “Deadwood” for the first time. It can’t take long to write the dialog for that show. Everyone, and I mean everyone is dropping F bombs.
But, hey, who am I to infringe on your freedom of expression?
It’s a pity really.
don’t get me wrong. i had, and sometimes still do, have moments of the big 7 thrown around with abandon and i’ve come up with a few derivatives of my own…but rarely in any kind of “public” setting. i was a broacast journalist for 20 years and some of the newsrooms i was part of were just as nasty a place as any other…navy included.
maybe it is an age thing. what raised this was several notable incidents the past week where young and old were throwing around nasty trash in very public settings. that’s where i think the line should be drawn. will i sound that much better or different in public with the f word thrown in with emphasis more often?
When I wrote that I thought to myself: “damn” and “freaking” isn’t THAT bad compared to what we say in the mythical locker room letter F. You should hear the mythical sergio’s expression… anyway it sounds bad in english, so never mind that… :))
