At what age did you start using profane language?
 

I will have to say the second semester of my freshman year in high school.

I was probably about 10 years old. I'm a potty mouth. :D

I remember in first grade when everyone learned "fuck". We were sitting at a table in the lunch room when one of the kids said to us, "Wanna hear a bad word?" We all started saying it and passing it onto our friends at the lunch tables nearby. The cafeteria monitors (usually PTA people) flipped and told the teacher who told our parents. My parents weren't mad at me considering I had no idea what I was saying. They just told me not to say stuff like that anymore. And I didn't...until I got to middle school.

I remember having my mouth washed out by a baby sitter when I was 6-years old because some of the older kids told me "the worst word in the entire world" & I repeated it. (fuck)

Other than that, I probably started using profane words regularly in high school.

Probably 11 or 12. I have a bit of a potty mouth myself.

When at 4yrs old I copied my high school aged cousins & yelled shut up my momma was pretty shocked. "Look what your relatives taught her!!" my daddy said. Neither of them were very happy with my bad language.

I think for a while I watched what I said but def. was aware of cuss words in Middle School.

As a teacher I watch what I say at work but outside of work I can get quite the potty mouth!

Bout sixth grade.

Until I went to college, my mom would always get all upset if I cussed in front of her.

Now she dosent care. I still wont drop the f-bomb in front of her, but I'll say anything else around her.

My sister and brother in law cuss a lot. They are both well educated and professionals, but are just in the habit. They are worried that their four year old will roll up into pre-k and be all "shit, bitch, I dont want to go outside." lol.

Early high school. My mother was no joke, and I was not a rebellious kid until late. I'm 37 years old and I still don't swear around my mom!

1st grade.

I was a hellion.

i started cussing right after i got out of the womb.

5th grade, one of my friends noticed I cussed a lot......damn

Much to my mother's chagrin, I was but a wee tot when I started refering to the bathroom as "the crapper." Carlin's list of things that you can't say on television soon followed.

She still is always at me about my language.

My first cuss word was "shit" when I was around 4-5 years old. I started to use cuss words a lot when I was around 2nd grade... :)

First time I remember was in elementary school. Probably around 4th grade.

It was all very daring.

Some point early in elementary school, like around 3rd grade. My parents weren't exactly thrilled.

I can't even remember. Is that bad? :p

When I was about 8, I watched in amazement as my father picked up and threw my elder brother through the screen door for using the F bomb in front of my mother. And my daddy was one of those wonderfully gentle and loving men. I can remember the actual thought process of, "Hmm... remember not to say THAT in the house!" I said it for the first time when I was a senior in college.

The interesting part is, everyone was so stunned, it had a gazillion times the shock value - there was total silence!

I'll admit it, it was about 2nd grade. It started when we were singing, "Miss Susie had a steamboat..." :p

like 5th or 6th grade...I still dont cuss around my parents though...well try not to...other than that I cuss like a sailor.

I can remember saying "shut up" in front of my mother in 4th grade. Then it all went to hell after that! I have such a potty mouth. You'd never know I work with children year round! I almost like it when I see up tight people cringe when I drop an f-bomb. My friends are amazed by the language I use around my mother. I never cuss at her, just with her!

Oh, Sweetie, I would pay very real money to EVER hear my mother use that word!! I think she'd rather die first - she has her own company, and overheard someone say it once, and told that woman that she (the woman) would be on the street before she said that on HER time again!

And now y'all know how I became such a goody two shoes!

I've always been allowed to curse, so it was never a big deal to me.

I remember getting in trouble around 4th grade for calling someone a "jackoff".
High school I cussed, but as an adult I have a very foul, unladylike mouth!!! F-bombs are regular words for me!
I try not to talk that way in front of my mom, but sometimes I have too.

Probably while very young...my parents don't cuss a lot, but when they do....wow. I swear like a drunken sailor on leave in Shanghi.

My mom does get on me about it every now and then. However, I tell her it's just in the family (I come from a Naval family).

I can remember when I first heard two curse words.

In 1st grade we had a calendar on the wall w/ different notible things on each day. Well my friend went and ask me how to pronounce some guys name that was on there (he had invented something). I don't remember how it was spelled but it looked like it should have been pronounce b*tch. So thats what I said and all my friends laughed and were like "omg, you just cussed"

the 2nd one was in 4th grade art class and one girl called another girl a hoe. I was like "why on earth did that girl just call you a gardening tool". Then everyone clued me in that it was a bad word.

The only words my family said when I was growing up were damn and shit.

I said mild stuff in high school. I didn't say fuck until Freshman year of college when I had a jersey girl living across the hall from me and every other word that came outta her mouth was the F-bomb. Somehow it just became habit for me too say it too, in fact by the end of the year 80% of the hall had started saying the word.

Supposedly my baby sitter's rebellious HS age son taught me to say F### you, and I said it to my mom at about age 2.

Regular occurance was probably 4th grade, but I remember distinctly having a conversation early on in 6th grade with a friend about how it was easier to get away with saying words like that, now that we were older and "ruled" the school...whatever.

Now my parents and I routinely curse all the time in front of each other...

give me number nine!
 

;) Hello, operator!

My parents never censored themselves, and neither did any other Serbian parents I knew. I guess the situation was harsh enough that words had to reflect it!

I actually got into a lot of trouble when I moved into the U.S. when I was 14 and used 'swear' words in regular sentences. It took me a long time to understand that I was getting in trouble because I wasn't supposed to be saying certain words.

I went to Catholic school through fifth grade, so I didn't even really hear any foul language until I transferred to public school in sixth grade. I brought home some interesting new vocabulary words...

I think the first time I said anything that could be considered swearing, was when I was about 6. My dad was yelling at me about something (he was always yelling at me about something) and he said, "Up your nose!" So I said, "Up yours!" - honestly not knowing that that generally referred to another part of the anatomy. :eek: I couldn't sit down for a week after that.

I dont cuss around my parents, the worst i'll say is "shit" and my mom will still get mad if i say it.

But I started using profane language around 4th or 5th grade. That is when I really learned those words, so I would say them in every sentence. I remember one day walking from my classroom to the blacktop/basketball courts, and i was soo mad that everyword out my mouth was a curse word. I was constantly "F-- this sh---. These d@mn m---- f----- are p-ssing me the f--- off"

Ahh...good times! lol. I stopped using real profane words when i was a junior or senior in high school. Now it just feels real wierd to use the f- word...but i do when i'm extremely angry.

I saw someone flip the bird when I was little so I asked my mom what it meant. She told me not to do it.

I learned all the curse words and about sex in the playground like any true New Yorker. I started cursing a lot when I was in 7th grade. My sister started when she was 2 or 3. "Oh, you're so cute!" "F@ck you!"

My Mother tells me that my very first understandable words were "Damn it"! She says that when she told my Dad he beamed with pride and said, "That's my boy"! They both got a case of the grins over it and for years it was a standard comment around the family to say "What do you expect from a boy who cussed before he could stand up"! I think this actually got me out of some trouble from time to time as my behaviour, such as it was, seemed to be excused by this. I am told that this tends to run in the family as both my Dad and my cousin Chip are reputed to have said something similar as their first utterances. Grand dad's comment was that it just went to show that we were all ideally suited to be Army officers and then Lawyers. Ah well, c'est la merde!

As did I. My parents used to curse a lot, often in many different languages. They were pretty open about cursing (think the Osbournes) and figured that there were worse things I could do...saying 'fuck' and 'shit' wasn't that bad.

Of course this was only limited to our house. My mom made me promise that I was never to be that way outside the house.

Oh yeah, and I did manage to make it through 13 years of Catholic school.

I'm really surprised by this little "poll"! Granted, my family is pretty straight, but I think damn, hell, and the occasional shit were permitted in my house. My daddy was forever saying, "You do not say (whatever) in front of your mother!" as if she never heard it. But, bless his heart, he did have her on a major pedestal!




Do they make guys like that anymore?

Gosh, I wasn't even allowed to say "Shut up" growing up. Heck, I thought that "screw" was a bad word for the longest time. The only time we heard curse words growing up was coming from my mother during UK basketball games.

To this day, I'm not much of one to swear a lot. Get a few drinks in me though, and I'll let a few "shit's" and "damn's" slip.

I'm surprised about this poll too. I cursed every know and then since I was a little kid, but I didn't make a habit of it until I started high school. I went to a really strict K-8 school, we weren't allowed to say a lot of things. I once got into major trouble for just saying "that sucks!", we weren't allowed to say "shut up" either. And, around my family I still don't curse, unless on accident, they never did put up with it!

Okay, true confessions time... I was in 10th grade before I knew that "fuNk" wasn't the bad word!

I'm embarrassed that it has always be a part of my vocabulary (thank you, mom....), and I wish that I could stop!!! Working in advertising certainly doesn't help my potty mouth!