I've been told to stop this curse behavior since I was 7 years old.
After I was just a young boy I had been taught children may be seen rather than heard. Eventually it was about milking some time and my daddy sent me to find the sweet feed for that cow from the metal barrel by which he had it stored. The molasses within the feed made it hard for my small hands to fill the bucket. During my frustration of trying to rush and fill the feed bucket, I release a string of expletives none which I had the foggiest notion regarding their real meanings. They were the words that I had heard utilized by one of my Uncles, mom's oldest brother when he was describing a meeting that had happened to him. I had no clue the words were "cuss" words and language not really adults should use.
I didn't realize daddy was near by and had heard those horrible words I'd just spoken. Obviously, it was an immediate visit to the wood shed for me personally with a good licking and a stern warning I ought to never use that sort of language again and when I did, my mouth could be washed out with soap. I learned my lesson on that day and never was someone to take God's name in vain or turn it into a habit of using profanity. Today it appears it is commonplace but yet expected. You can't watch a television program, read a newspaper which has quotes, or pay attention to the lyrics of contemporary day songs which have not been tainted using the mundane.
Definitely not a word expected from the small child nor must have been in his limited vocabulary. I know he did not know this is. In all probability it was a thing he had heard a grownup say at some point when expressing frustration. I scolded him and told him that word wasn't to be used again. Whether he understood me remains to appear but the reality of youngsters repeating what they hear is apparent. We may have all been responsible for using language that isn't appropriate but if we'd only stopped to consider what we were saying and who had been listening, we might have changed our rhetoric utilizing a form of acceptable verbiage instead of some carnal word or phrase. I've known men who "cussed" like sailors but let a lady or a member of the clergy show up, the foul language disappears.
My Grandpa, my mom's dad kind of hedged on "cussing." Rather than saying, "Damn" he would say "Dowle" All of us knew he was still being cussing but it didn't quite appear to be it. As long as I lived in your own home during my formative years as well as later in life, I never heard my daddy utter the very first curse word. Recently throughout a memorial service a comment is made concerning the wisdom from the deceased. He was on the committee that had hard decisions to become made and the discussion gone to live in how to communicate what must be said without being inflammatory. His comment was," Make it as being plain as you can without cussing." His insight turned out to be humorous for some but actually, communications do not have to be contaminated to become understood.
Do you "cuss?" Have your kids ever heard you "cuss?" Do you consider curse words in all forms of communication work? When you were little, have you ever get your mouth beaten up with soap for "cussing?" can you able to carry on a normal conversation without having using "cuss" words?
Maybe sometimes "cuss" word can help stranger to get more closed at once.Maybe.
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