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Originally posted by HotDamnImAPhiMu
I think the point is less that dropping one f bomb is distracting, and more that if you're peppering your speech so throughly with swear words that they're taking the place of every noun, adjective, and verb, it becomes (a) hard to understand what you're saying and (b) hard to take you seriously.
I don't think anyone's that worked up about one or two words.
Except my mom. Who told me yesterday ladies don't say "shut up".
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Point well made.
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believe we were discussing the site first quoted by kddani, not anyone person or persons in particular on GreekChat. Certainly the person who so hates the South would have made a much more believable statement had the same essay contained less profanity.
In the appropriate time, in the appropriate place, swearing is normal and even funny. My favorite movie is laced with it - but since most of it takes place in a locker room, it's appropriate.
What people who habitually use profanity fail to realize is that they are limiting themselves to what career they can hold. I have a friend who seriously can't make a sentence without the f bomb - and he thinks he's going to get a public relations position. The people in the front office have already told more than one person that my friend's vocabulary is an embarrassment and that he won't be offered the position. He's even been told that - but he refuses to understand (his response was, "f- 'em, they'll come crawling to me yet."). This same scenario has been played out for at least three different jobs that I know of - and I'm using him as an example because he's not on GreekChat and he's the best example I know of.
I honestly don't think that GreekChat is an ivory tower, but it really shouldn't be a gutter, either. And frankly, with everything else going on lately, I'm somewhat surprised that this is an issue!