I once read an article in Readers Digest wherein a teenager referred to all Hispanics as "f..... Puerto Ricans". I did not understand that it was an edited swear word; I thought the person had started to say something rude, then changed his mind and simply said "Puerto Ricans". I thought it was very polite of him to stop himself from swearing, and also pretty funny that he didn't know not all Hispanics come from Puerto Rico.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that swearing was just saying, “I swear!”Anon
- i used to believe the news readers on TV could see us and i'd make funny faces to try to "distract" themAnon
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon
- i used to think the word "suck" was a swear wordAnon
- When I was little I would always say in my mind, "I know you can read my mind", just in caseAnon
- i could swear eleventeen was a number for the longest time -- it still sounds pretty convincing.— erin