Swear Censors... Really necessary?

Mr Stephen Fry series on language Importance of Swearing:

My daughter told me off for saying crap once.  I wish people would avoid swearing altogether at this site -- it's not uncommon for her to look at this site when I'm on it.  My daughter seeing that banner ad with the crude language was bad enough -- I realise that the admin have no control over those, except for if M@X pulled them altogether, which aint gonna happen.  I don't have adblock software on my iPod Touch, which I was browsing with at the time.

Anthony H. wrote: Epignosis wrote: I am fine with the censor.  I don't know why it's a big deal.  If you don't know what f**k is when you see it written this way, then you don't need to know. That's pretty much another way of saying that it's pointless. So, why can't it just be done away with?

Tony R wrote: irrelevant wrote: Tony R wrote: I hate to hear c*** under any circumstances and anyone who says it in my company gets a telling. Thats cuz u admin.  I mean in real life.

Edited by irrelevant - October 21 2011 at 11:02

Tony R wrote: I hate to hear c*** under any circumstances and anyone who says it in my company gets a telling.

I hate to hear c*** under any circumstances and anyone who says it in my company gets a telling.

ExittheLemming wrote: toroddfuglesteg wrote: Another thing/slightly off topic:   It is inpolite, slightly childish and barbaric to swear. You will sink quite low in most people's estimation if you swear. The English language also have enough words to play around with. Swearing is not necessary.  I ran a swearbox in my office for a while. Though I got a nice letter from the local cancer charity, thanking me for the donation, it was quite a painful excersise which cut down my swearing quite considerable. My profanities are now the likes of holy squirrel and other animal replacement of swear words. Although bad habits is difficult to quit and I sometimes fall into old habits. Try quit smoking. Try quit swearing. Try stop snoring at work.... although the latter one is beyond the mankind. Censorship ? I would recommend people quit swearing everywhere in life. I would appeal to the good in everybody. ........... just climbing down from my white horse again.......... Holy Squirrel is probably the most offensive thing I've seen in print to date (I'm 49 and work in the debt collection industry) and it's on the next level of hell just below those who say frikkin' I'm not condoning swearing but one of the most prevalent urban myths that still circulates today is that those who swear  simply cannot articulate their ideas. This is unadulterated bollocks complete tosh coined by denim shirted liberals we all had to endure as schoolteachers during the 70's. I have a huge vocabulary and swear all the time and the principle reason is best summed up by one Billy Connelly: F*ck Off works while Shoo, go away doesn't

toroddfuglesteg wrote: Another thing/slightly off topic:   It is inpolite, slightly childish and barbaric to swear.

It is none of these things.

Another thing/slightly off topic:  

It is inpolite, slightly childish and barbaric to swear. You will sink quite low in most people's estimation if you swear. The English language also have enough words to play around with. Swearing is not necessary. 

I ran a swearbox in my office for a while. Though I got a nice letter from the local cancer charity, thanking me for the donation, it was quite a painful excersise which cut down my swearing quite considerable. My profanities are now the likes of holy squirrel and other animal replacement of swear words. Although bad habits is difficult to quit and I sometimes fall into old habits. Try quit smoking. Try quit swearing. Try stop snoring at work.... although the latter one is beyond the mankind.

Censorship ? I would recommend people quit swearing everywhere in life. I would appeal to the good in everybody.  

........... just climbing down from my white horse again..........

Edited by toroddfuglesteg - October 21 2011 at 03:18

Evolver wrote: Oh, and f**k.

sh*t, you can't say f**k.