> > Well, if it makes ya feel any better, and it probably doesn't, i don't swear. Nope, not at all, tisk tisk tisk, nasty habbit.
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> > I have no idea why I don't swear, in 6th grade when i was practiaclly the only person in my grade who hadn't started swearing (sheesh, my sister, who's in 6th grade says there's only one kid in her class that swears, but i'm not sure if I believe her) I decided not to do it, I don't know why, it just seemed to me that it took something away from a person when they started swearing. It's not like my parents have taught me that either, they both swear constantly, but i'm used to it. It isn't the swearing that gets me down, it's the starting... I really have no idea why, but a couple of my friends who i've kept from swearing for a really long time, have started, and it really made me feel bad. oh well.
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> > Jimmy O"Ya stupid bleepedy bleeper"f York
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> I heard a high school coach say that cussing just shows that you don't have the vocabulary to express yourself otherwise. I think it is an indication of insecurity and I tend to put it in the same catagory as smoking. Both are desperate, misguided attempts to say, "I'm an adult, nobody tells me what to do." Some of these would-be adults are old and grey, but still haven't grown up yet.
> Howard

I also had a high school coach who expressed it very well, "Swearing is a weak mind trying to express itself forcefully." Though there's more to the issue (like how others said they were desensitized to it by people around them) it remains a good quote.

gab"Never swears, even the 'little' words"by