• Allonzee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    I curse with abandon in front of my kid, not at him, just in conversation. Expletives are part of language, and are just more words for the toolbox, useful in adding a little spice or emphasis to a point.

    If a teacher ever contacts me to say they used a vulgar word, my first question that will inform my response, if any, will be "how did they use it, specifically?"

    I see our, the US’s, childish aversion to curse words as part of its childish puritanical roots based in wilfill ignorance. Guns all day, but ahhhhh dirty words! Ahhhhh boobies! Our response to such things are what’s embarrassing.

    If you want me to take anyone’s censorship of anything seriously in this cesspool, start by advocating censoring glorification of “muh 2A,” and maybe I’ll take you seriously.

    • Linnce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I wish my parents did this. I have such a mental block on cursing that I can’t bring myself to say it out loud, even though I’m thinking about it and it’s the perfect choice of words for the moment. I also feel socially left out by people around me because of that, as in they can be themselves and I have to restrain myself.

      Funny enough this is only in my native language. Since I grew up watching YouTube videos from english speaking people that cursed a lot, that feels very comfortable and natural.

      The other day I was rewatching some adventure time on hbo max and saw they were censoring the word idiot. I’m pretty sure they were censoring a bunch of other cartoons that weren’t censored back in the day. That pissed me off so much, they are just limiting our vocabulary more and more for words that have a somewhat negative connotation.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        the native language thing is so wild, i have the same but for sexual language. dirty talk in swedish just makes me laugh and cringe in equal amounts, but it works perfectly fine in english.

    • JASN_DE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      The full quote is “Yippee-Ki-Yay, motherfucker!”, uttered by Bruce Willis in “Die Hard”

    • TehBamski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      Yippee Ki Yay originates from the 19th century in the Western United States. I know it as an expression of excitement or joy. Example: While playing as cowboys, who might say Yippee Ki Yay as you (pretend to) ride off on your horse.

      This screengrab is in reference to the line that is said in Die Hard movie(s). The father is claiming to say the last word in the movie catchphrase.

      • YippieKyeAy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I was born in 92’ couple years after the movie. My dad was/is a fan of action films so I think it had a part in how I got my name.

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I’m all for letting kids swear, but only if they do so correctly in a sentence and in the correct context. There’s no reason it should be a big fucking deal.

  • Kaavi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Your son already knew.

    When my daughter was 4 I asked her to say all the bad words she knew. She started with the not so bad ones and ended with all the worst ones.

    I guess the other kids in her kindergarten had older siblings, so she knew them all already. But most importantly, she also knew when to use them and when not to use them. :)