Ok..well when I was little, my parents were watching tv, and I was in the room to..I had never heard of a basta*d...So I really dident know it was a cuss word I figured you said it when you were mad at someone. So, a day or so later I wanted to sound imporant and we were fishing and I was going to try and catch the minnow out of the bucket and it kept slipping out of my hand so i shouted///"You backstard!" and They got a good laugh at my misunerstanding and then explained I shouldent say that word...
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- I thought that the word Copyright was like copying your right hand on the copier.Anon
- I used to think that fart was a bad word and then i heard my mom say it once and I was so shocked.— Tara
- When I was 6 I used to believe my parents were watching me at school on TV. It explained a lot at the time!— opinionata
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m