who is hyping up swear words lol
thought this was interesting, swearing can basically keep you from being a fucking pussy apparently
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jcs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unpopular opinion: profanity is massively overhyped and people that excessively swear tend to irk me. There are so many ways to passionately express emotion, at least in the English language, yet so many are fascinated with only a few. The word “fuck” in particular loses all gravitas after hearing it 150 times a day for most of my life. I’ve had to stop watching certain shows because swearing felt so excessively forced to perhaps come across as edgy, and it broke all immersion for me.
ngdev@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
sukhmel@programming.dev 13 hours ago
This phenomenon is particularly strong in people who do not use such words on a regular basis
But you have to keep it for the bad day
mlg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah the only environment it seems to fit is the military which sort of makes sense for how often you get smoked long before you ever see combat or even just active duty.
And even then most military people have a cleaned up citizen dictionary for whenever they’re not with their buddies.
Anything outside of that just seems excessive and vulgar for no apparent gain or reason. Even funny and wildly profane comments online don’t use expletives as much as some people do IRL.
There has to be wordplay and emphasis to make it justied (or funny like the gorilla warfare copypasta), otherwise it just comes of the same as ending every single sentence or phrase with “lol”.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
That’s a popular opinion. I agree though, if you’re going to swear, make it count. Bonus points for creativity, you fucking festering anal fistula