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Today's Children Are Officially Potty Mouths

Posted by samzenpus on from the kids-say-the-#@^*est-things dept.

tetrahedrassface writes "When the Sociolinguistics Symposium met earlier this month swearing scholar Timothy Jay revealed that an increase in child swearing is directly related to an increase in adult swearing. It seems that vulgarity is increasing as pop culture continues to popularize vulgarities. The blame lies with media, public figures, politicians, but mostly ourselves. From the article: 'Children as young as two are now dropping f-bombs, with researchers reporting that more kids are using profanity — and at earlier ages — than has been recorded in at least three decades.'"

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  1. Re:Oblig. by suso · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well you just confirmed that kids are dropping f-bombs. Oh wait, your slashdot id is 5 digits, you must be a teenager.

  2. Re:Oblig. by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Too bad you are teaching anachronisms which fail to account for the fact that society's functional parameters are changing as evidenced by this study itself. Ultimately your children will have a view of the world warped by these anachronisms and may be unable to eventually figure out why everybody thinks they are prissy cold fish.

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  3. Re:We now idolize the prison and degenerate cultur by locallyunscene · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    PRISON-culture? You're calling baggy clothes prison-culture? Wow, I hope you realize how psuedo-intellectually racist that is.

    Probably not, I'll just get off your lawn then so you can continue blaming the same young people stereotypes for what's wrong with the world today.