Inverse relation between profanity and intelligence

This is me but I wouldn't have any young (under age 14) relative of mine be online without over-the-shoulder supervision.

BTW, A2K has always had a varying degree of swearing...perhaps 6-7 yrs ago there was a different level of moderation. For the most part, those that use profanity are no more or less intelligent. Some folks are more likely to use it for emphasis and/or reflect the 'street' than others.

Talking 13 to 15 year olds. I know they have heard worse. I just don't like the idea of having them think that profanity has a place in relevant exposition.

**** that.

Congratulations. You've made double digits. Your parents will be proud.

Its a good assertion, difficult to support or deny, sort of like "do you still beat your children?"

What a %&*#!@ load of old horse *#%*

No.

Howdy Farmer. Ain't seen ya for a while.

I'm shocked!

You asked for it.

It's all a matter of cultural conditioning and has nothing whatever to do with intellectual acumen. One man's 'profanity' is another's 'poetic license.' It also has a geographic component, apparently. I have never heard such widespread, nearly universal, use of the 'F' word anywhere in the USA as I hear daily here in Hawaii. Parents use it in front of their children without a second thought. Women use it just as frequently as men. At first it was shocking to me to hear everything described a effing this and effing that. Now I've gotten so used to it that I've come to accept it as part of the local idiom, the Hawaiian-English dialect.

Yeah, but. . . .

Ummmmm, those are islands where you live, Merry.

You've gotten used to it?

As much as one not raised with that kind of speech can get used to it. Let me put it this way -- it no longer offends me the way it used to. (That's not to say it doesn't offend me at all. )

People who never swear creep me out.

When i was overseas in Korea, we would cuss the Koreans eloquently in their own language--and they would just laugh. But when we cussed them in English, they'd get really, really p*ssed. Go figure . . .

OK, I'll admit.

I had to use a lot of swear words in order to lean how to tie this knot:



But I used 'em under my breath.

Does the knot have a particular name, Neo?