What do you consider swearing?

[daydream**believer]

For me, there is no question that the words that start with F, C and even the S word are swearing.

I never use the C word but i will admit to very occasionally using the other two.

I dont count the female dog word as a swear word, but, i would not allow my kids to use it. Its an adult word imo.

I think people who use alternate words in place of swear words, like shoot, fiddlesticks etc, are swearing. IMO if you slip a word in place of a swear word, then that makes it a swear word by proxy

[clair.de.lune]

What about swearing in the workplace, not at your co-workers but at a computer or a machine? Is that asseptable?

[clair.de.lune]

What if you spray your work computer with mace because it's slow?

[clair.de.lune]

Will it help?

[the_great_she_elephant]

My 4yo grandson invented his own word instead of swearing.

His hands went on hips and he said grumgrah and I burst out laughing while his parents chastised  :^O

One of my brothers used to invent his own swearwords.  there were floods of tears one day because he called his younger brother an orran borran!

Another time I managed to incur his wrath over something and he shouted at me 'You...you.... 'longheaded face'.

[azureline**]

methinks az doth protesteth too mucheth.  

what am I protestething about?

[*pepe]

What if you spray your work computer with mace because it's slow?

that would show a distinct lack of class.

don't do it

[*pepe]

what am I protestething about?

your purity, or lack thereof 

[azureline**]

oh, ok...... stupid is a naughty word here... as is shut up.......

[cherry*135]

Nothing wrong with saying you don't ever swear. I don't swear.

[freddie*rooster]

Don't waste mace on something you don't get a reaction from Clair.