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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. Oblig. by bsDaemon · · Score: 4, Funny

    So fucking what? /sarcasm

    1. Re:Oblig. by osu-neko · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

      --
      "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
  2. disgraceful by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Re:But by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    iPod, iPhone, iPad etc

  4. Need more powerful words by toxonix · · Score: 4, Funny

    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..