Fuck knows, fuck you, and merry fucking Christmas.

In seriousness though: no idea. It's nice though, not every sentence needs an f-bomb or a c-nuke. They're just helpful and/or satisfying sometimes.

You may often be understood quite well even without using harsh language in every fucking sentence.

Infact, refraining from using harsh language increases the impact of it when you actually need to for some god damned reason.

So please, consider using some bloody restraint, and only curse when you actually shit ass need to.

I hope that this comment has cleared it up for you, have a lovely new year!

I try to ease up on the c word when I think I might be replying to an American because I'm aware it has pretty hideous connotations over there.

I don't swear often because that makes it so much more satisfying when I do. It's like rationing out my favourite snacks.

Why the fuck not?

Beep!

Squid_Slime, you are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.

There's not really much need for swearing in most comments/posts I come across on lemmy/kbin, so I'm not surprised it's uncommon.

I don't see a problem with bringing out the occasional swear word for particular emphasis or humour, but when someone can't write regular posts/comments without cursing it's pretty likely they're just a kid trying to be edgy on the internet.

It makes me laugh when some people give certain words magical powers. They are just fucking words for Christ's sake.

Consensus? This your first day on internet or what?

Because one of the luxuries of conducting discourse by post is that you have time to choose words that are more suited for your specific intention. When speaking, saying "fucking" is often simply a replacement for "uhh". At least, it is for me.

How a sentence with swearing is perceived is wildly unpredictable. For example, "science: it works bitches" was a comic and tshirt by Randall Munroe. Not for a second when he wrote that did the sexist interpretation of "ladies, start trusting science" enter his head. I'm not saying that is a lesson in not swearing. I'm just saying swears tend to have loads of meanings, and they are hard to use unambiguously. In art, ambiguity is often key though. I am against censorship.

Meh, I save my swears for special occasions, for when I want to make it clear shit is real.

Otherwise metaphors more plum than the violets of Persia do me fine. (That's actually a simile.)

Step one: instead of "Ass," say "Buns" Like "Kiss my buns" or "You're a buns hole" Step two: instead of "Shit," say "Poo" As in "Bull-poo," "Poo-head," and "This poo is cold" Step three: with bitch, drop the 'T' 'Cause "Bich" is Latin for generosity! Step four: don't say "Fuck" anymore 'Cause "Fuck" is the worst word that you can say So just use the word, "M'kay!"

You are frequenting an incredibly select number of communities.

Also, discussions tend to be more respectful here than on low bars like reddit, so crutches like swearing don't come into play as much.

In my case, my f****** speech to text won't f****** write out the c*** d*** c*** swear words, which I think is hilarious.

Swearing is unimaginative and dull.

Because its fucking rude to curse you shitheaded little twat!

<3

Consensus? You're asking the fediverse for a consensus?

The common "curse" words like "shit" and "fuck" are pretty impersonal. They can signal an escalation, but are typically pretty minor. They don't even do that when the speaker is like "I just took a huge shit. Don't go in there for a while"

Other words, like racial slurs and anti-queer stuff, invoke more history and violence. If someone calls someone an asshole that's probably not that big a deal. If they call someone a n-word f-gay-slur, there might be a hate crime about to happen.

So I don't use those words. I don't want to bring the stuff they import into the scene.

People who are the typical recipients of the slurs using them themselves is a related topic I'm not very qualified to speak on, and I wouldn't try to police their language.

The fuck would i care if people fucking swear or not, as long as you don't fucking target your fucking swear at others then you be fucking damn sure no one will fucking have any fucking problem with your fucking swear.

Cursing all the time is like yelling all the time. It loses its effect. That said, If you're going to swear, don't fucking censor your words. It's just stupid.

**** censorship

I don't focken feel like it, ya cunt.

It can be totally tonally jarring. I swear all the time, but if I threw some swears in my comments from my history then the messages behind them would be weakened.

Every other word (not literally) out of my mouth is a curse word, so much so that I feel less of a need to use them here. Plus every-once-and-a-while peeps take my rando opinions far too seriously. So, (to compensate), I try to be more polite than I would when actually speaking

Fuck off.

Cursing and not cursing will both get you pretty much no reaction here.

But... if you self censor curse words with f*** or s***.... some lemmings lose their $#!+!

This is the internet. You can say "fuck"

I swear a lot more irl than I do on here. A lot of a swears value is in the tone you deliver it in, that's kinda how you communicate which variation/definition of "fuck" you're actually using, of the huge number of possibilities. This opens up possibilities for humor, expressing subtle (or not so subtle) emotion, etc.

On here, since I lack that fine control, I tend to just revert to using it as an exclamation. And I just don't do that often, I don't use exclamation marks very often either.

It just lacks the same value. That's all, really.

For me, it's just uninteresting and pointless, and detracts from when I might use them for emphasis, if they are used all the time.

I also find a lot of popular media leans on vulgar as the entire end game. Like a comedy where the only attempt at being funny is saying words you're not "supposed" to stay. Use your language as you wish, but you better have something more to bring to the table than a willingness to say "dirty" words.

Admittedly, it's not as much a thing as it used to be. With media not caring much about language anymore, it stopped even in theory being funny by itself, but there was a time in the 80s and 90s where a number of personalities were nothing but swearing in contexts they weren't "supposed" to, and it was so boring.

So that carries forward to why I don't bother to swear, because I found it so unimaginative then and that stuck with me.

Lemmy has a hard-coded swear word filter that replaces a number of words with removed. Not seeing words makes you less likely to use them yourself.

for myself I try not to cuss out other people but if I see someome doing something eggregious egregious or I do something stupid then I'll swear at them or myself

otherwise I try not to swear too much
ymmv

hope everyone has a fucking fantastic holiday tho!🤗

$&@! it.

Because I can get my fucking point across without them

Because control freak dickheads think you're being 'uncivil'. Fuck them and the cat they rode in on.

What the fucking fuck kind of panzie azzed question is this. If you can't handle a few fucking grown up words your life will just go down the shitter.
Don't be a whiny azzed biotch and ask such fucked up questions.
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That is all.

Hell if I know

FUCK YEAH!!!!

honestly less arguments

I don't fucking know!

I noticed my posts don't get submitted when I swear. I also don't post in this case, because sometimes you need to swear to make a point.

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For me personally, I got into a lot of drawn out arguments on Reddit. I said some LGBTQ performers doing a performance that involved a cross was “child friendly” and for 8 months I still got messages from pearl clutching conservatives calling me a pe**. Here, I try to limit my hot takes to 24 hours of engagement, and I try to be more respectful.

Also, I’d like to think that there is a better class of people here than on Reddit. So, I act accordingly. I like my new home. It’s not totally full of assholes yet, and I don’t fancy creating any.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit. -- Mel Brooks