Sunday 27 April 2008

Bad Behaviour - Swearing/Verbal Abuse

Where 'swearing' is concerned, these are a few words i ask myself:


  • Is some swearing words acceptable??

  • What is the reason for these words?

  • Why do people find it offensive?

  • Who is to blame?

  • Why, when swearing, it results to verbal abuse or even violence?

Mainly when i swear it's because i have made a mistake. I try not to swear in public because these words are not nice heard, they are disgusting. Especially in today's society, it isn't just a single word; people, including young children use these vile words to insult others and /or there parents. But who is to blame? Parents? Television? Public? To some extent i think parents are to blame, especially those who swear in front of their children, but children do pick up words from school, so i think public are to blame too.


Why is that people also get offended by the single or double fingers being showed? I think it is immature that people do this, its just rude and basically it shows that they have no manners.


Yet when people do swear, others find it really funny. Why is this? Is it only funny because of how the person said it? Is it only funny and less offensive when it's used in a joke or in a comedy? We get mixed reactions all the time. Its wrong and offensive when we hear two adults swearing in the street, yet if a comedian said it, then it is funny.


The link below tells how swearing is related to the brain. It's very interesting and it is also something that i never knew about.


http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/swearing-1.gif&imgrefurl=http://people.howstuffworks.com/swearing4.htm&h=360&w=400&sz=29&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=LcXCY__A41zyOM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dswearing%2B%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den


1 comment:

Jeni f said...

I think that swearing can be unacceptable but i do agree with you that when a comedian swears it is usually funny, or maybe it is not the language itself but the context within which they use it in.