Foulmouth

Nothing warms a father's heart more than hearing his teenage daughter drop the f-bomb at least once or twice every few minutes. Who wouldn't be proud? We avoided using that kind of language in the house for a long time, but kind of relaxed about it a bit this year. And who would have thought an adolescent would take a mile if you gave them an inch? It's so unfair. I've since had to call her on repeated use of the f word at 6:45 AM in response to not being able to find something in the refrigerator. You have to draw the line somewhere.

Since I can't swear on the job now (as opposed to the world of advertising where it's ubiquitous) and wouldn't let myself do it at home, I of course rationalized it by making it an educational experience. If you can't use swear words, you have to think of the correct descriptive word, helping to make you more articulate. You can also rationalize it by saying that swear words are more effective if you only use them if you really need them. The other side of the argument, as was succinctly pointed out to me by one of my students, is that any sentence sounds better with a swear word in it.

Just as an informational note, since I don't use that kind of language here, whenever I need to substitute something for this words I will avoid the more current "s---" and use the traditional #*@%!. I think it's much more eloquent that way.