Today's Children Are Officially Potty Mouths

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.'"

Comments

Oblig.

[bsDaemon]

So fucking what? /sarcasm

Re:Oblig.

[Wyatt Earp]

What does low 4 digit mean?

Re:Oblig.

[nabsltd]

What does low 4 digit mean?

That you are actually dead and your post was made by a highly evolved AI that you wrote many years ago.

Re:Oblig.

[Wyatt Earp]

You mean back in the days of Jon Katz, the Matrix, Goatse and Hot Grits?

Heh, its a picnic now that the feral ones all go and hang out on /b/

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[osu-neko]

What does low 4 digit mean?

That you are actually dead and your post was made by a highly evolved AI that you wrote many years ago.

Not necessarily highly evolved. Some of us were replaced by small shell scripts.

disgraceful

[rubycodez]

as my toddler would say, that's fucked up!

Re:But

[sakdoctor]

iPod, iPhone, iPad etc

...like a sailor

[elcheesmo]

It's time to change the expression from curse like a sailor to curse like a 2-year old.

Need more powerful words

[toxonix]

These goddamn kids are diluting the strength of words. I'm going to have to get creative now. The trick I think is to combine things that multiply the strength of the words. Here are some examples of profane combinations, and please don't let the kids get wind of them:
"Jesus Fuck!"
"Christ's Tits!"
"Mother of God's Firm Ass!"
"Jesus Raped!"
I could go on..

Re:Anecdote

[roman_mir]

Well, that's the values that Sesame Street is pushing onto the kids these days. Be happy you didn't walk onto him while he was having a joint with a couple of bitches.

I wonder how his 'holly shit' sounded before that time: hoooueee siiiid

Bill Hicks said

[RichardDeVries]

"If the word 'fuck' bothers you, I can only imagine how much fucking must bother you."

- Bill Hicks

Why Swearing is Bad

[Cephacles]

Swearing or cursing as a habit during general discourse is a bad thing because it is a sign of both mental weakness and lack of self control. Have you heard about the study that found that dogs bark because they don't know what else to do? People curse because they can't find anything else useful to say. Sometimes it's okay, like when you hammer your finger by accident. But wolf puppies bark, and as they grow more mature they bark less or not at all. They are able to intercept the urge, they show the self control to avoid barking. As the mental capacity and self control of people increases, they will curse/swear less. As noted by the article, people are cursing and swearing more, which means it is likely their mental capacity is also diminishing. Recent studies on how Google and the constant barrage of information has a negative effect on cognition may provide a hint as to why swearing is becoming more prevalent. That's my theory.