The helpful Dr. James Dobson book that someone gave us as a shower gift said, "Does your house sound like an army barracks? You have to clean up your language now that you have children."

To which my response was, predictably, "Fuck that."

As it turns out, Mal learned to swear all on his own. One of the characters in Cars says "HO-LY SHOOT!" and Mal, imitating that, realized he could combine it with another word he's heard. He now says "Ho-lee shit!" quite a lot.

We correct his pronunciation calmly, like with everything else. "It's infinity, not infenwiddy..."It's shoot not shit." To no avail.

"No, mommy, it's holy shit!"

Heh. I'm not sure if I swear a lot or not, but it did highly amuse me one time when an acquaintance was shocked, *shocked* to hear me swear. I was like "...seriously??" I think he just had this image of me as a prim and proper good girl or something. Which...what the fuck, right?

Does anyone else read Slate's Dear Prudence? I don't know what it is, but over the past few weeks, she has just really started to annoy me...

One of K-Bug's friends said she had never heard me swear which led to both K-Bug and I looking at her with our mouths hanging open in pure WTF.

DH (STBX) loves to tell a story of me making some of his sailor shipmates blush.

Does anyone else read Slate's Dear Prudence?

I sometimes get sucked in (like just now) but she comes off as so judgmental (however I liked her answer about the handcuffs).

I stopped reading her once the original Prudie was replaced by Emily Yoffe.

Yeah, I think I just don't like Emily Yoffe all that much. I've enjoyed some of her "Human Guinea Pig" stuff, but I liked the old "Dear Prudence" much better.

My Mother never heard the word "fuck" until she went to college. She i had seen it in grafitti and was aware of its existance.

When we were kids swearing around Mom was a BIG deal. We were also not allowed to say "shut up" (it is very dismissive and disrespectful) and that got her angrier than Shit or Damn. She was hardcore.

Around 16 or so I told her I was old enough to decide to risk people judging me as all the things people judge you to be when you use bad words. She agreed and asked me to not use them around her.

Of course I did. And sometimes to great effect. In time, my siblings and I wore her down and she got over the horrible horrible shock of our language.

Now I really try not to swear around her (unless for comedic effect) because I know she doesn't like it. Now she occasionally will swear herself -- and my sisters and I are always starteled when she does.

We were also not allowed to say "shut up"

us neither! That or the "n" word were the only things that would get your mouth washed out with soap.

My Mother never heard the word "fuck" until she went to college.

I think I heard the word "fuck" maybe a half-dozen times before I went to college. Um, not counting movies... and I must have had an album or two with the f-word....

I was suprised that I found the swearing in Deadwood so off putting but I found the show unwatchable because of it.

Me too. I couldn’t handle it. The rampant use of the c word was so offputting.