i believed at 9 years of age that swear words were new. i didn't realize they were age-old, but rather thought someone was just now coming up with these 'bad words'.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I thought there were some swear words so bad if you said them you would go to jail!— Mexicrat
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- I used to believe that all languages were just jiberish and I asked my mom why they didn't use real words.Anon
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon