language: swearing

When I was about 8 or so, I was listening to talk radio in the car when the speaker was talking about an "n-word." Gasp! I thought I knew all the swear words. I asked my Mom what it was and she lied saying she didn't know. I thought I could figure it out. I rattled of a bunch of made-up words starting with "n." I wasn't very creative. They were words like, "nit" and "nuck."

I used to believe that giving someone the finger actually put a curse on them. So I'd secretly go around my kindergarden class "cursing" the kids I didn't like luckily with my ring finger.

i never knew wat the f word was until lsiting to a couple of 2pacs albums
( greatist rapper, srry for the spam)
then i knew it was a bad word and jut tried to not ssay it but would wen following his lyrics ;)

When I was little I understood that there were certain secret words that you were never ever supposed to say, & that some of them are worse than others-- so even after I had learned all of the actual swears, I figured there must be some left that I had never heard, that were even worse, that I would learn when I got older. I was disappointed when I found out that fuck and shit and so forth are all there is. Sometimes I still hope that there really are more swears for me to learn, but you're not allowed to learn them until you're 40 years old (like the Kabbalah)!

When I was in primary school, we used to do this little rhyme where we said, "Silence in the courtyard, silence in the street, the biggest twit in England is just about to speak - starting from now." One time I said this little rhyme, but instead of saying 'twit' I said 'twat' because I thought they meant the same thing and were equally rude. Twit isn't a very rude word, so I assumed that twat wasn't either. So the little boy, Tim, who had spoken and been crowned the biggest twat in England, by me, went mooching to the teacher and went "She said I was the biggest twat." and I got severely told off. *blush*

When I was little my mom told me that if you said the "f word" a curse would be put on you. She also told me that when people say the "f word" it means that whoever you say it to, you want to put a curse on them. Yeah, weird... However, I was scared of saying the "f word", but when I was eleven everyone was saying it and nobody died, so I figured it was a lie.

When my brother and I were younger my mother used to say "sugar!" instead of shit as she didn't want us kids to learn to swear. Consequently my brother thought that all such words were swear words and called me a "stupid cocoa" for years after.

Once when I was 4, I misunderstood the word for shucking corn and went around the neighborhood yelling for my brothers to come home and f---the corn, much to my mother's embarassment.

When I was a kid (actually, until about two years ago), my dad, my brother and I used to go skiing together almost every weekend. Well, on one of these outings, we were at the top of the hill, trying to decide which run to go down, and we noticed that one of the runs was called "FLICKER," written exactly like that, in all capital letters, except the "L" and the "I" were a little too close together, so my brother's eyes lit up as he pointed to it and said "Hey Emily, look what that hill's called!!!" My dad almost killed himself laughing. It was even funnier because, at this particular ski place (which catered to families), there were signs all over the place that said "No foul language," with a big red X through a picture of a tough-looking guy with cartoon expletives coming out of his mouth. So, my brother couldn't understand for the life of him why the people at the ski hill would break their own rule by giving one of the runs such a "vulgar" name, lol.

When me and my brother were little our parents TRY they're best NOT to swear infrount of us cause you know how kids are they'll repeat everything you say so instead of swearing they would spell out the swearing word say for instances if they wanted to say DAMN they would say D A M N!!!! And me and my brother would be so confused til we started to learn to read and spell cause then when our parents would spell out a swearing word we would say "DAD DON'T YOU MEAN SHIT INSTEAD OF S H I T"?

I didn't know the differnce between heck and h*ll. One time I went outside and said "What the h*ll?". My mom scolded me for that.LOL

I thought that shut up was swearing.How dumb!

My mother told me that when she was little a girl told her that waving the finger meant "hi!".So she waved it at someone in the next car and got in trouble for it.

Until I was seven or eight, I thought the word "shit" was spelled and pronounced like "shet".

One day, I was watching "Double Dare" (a kids' game show in the U.S.), and the host, Marc Summers, was talking to a contestant about a certain pet that she owned.

"Does it shed all over the place?" he asked.

Well, you can imagine what I thought he said. I was appalled that Marc Summers would use such language and confused as to why he didn't get in trouble for it.

Ever since he was in preschool, my youngest brother's favorite movie has always been "The Princess Bride"; he used to watch it constantly. At one point toward the end of the movie, a good guy sneers at a bad guy, "I want my father back, you son of a b****." Luckily, we didn't have to be concerned about my brother learning that naughty word: when he was about nine, we heard him recite the line as, "I want my father back, Hassanavabidge." He thought the bad guy's name was Hassanavabidge.

my sisters and i invented an imagination game called the alley cat restaurant, some cross between a disney movie and a soap opera. my youngest sister, who always had to be the boy, played thomas o'malley (a la aristocats). there was some pretended romantic triangle and i said, "Tom doesn't love you. he's after one prime pussy." my mom came running in to the room screaming, "what did you say??" and i started yelling "pussy cat! pussy cat!" i didnt really know what i had said, i wa only about 9, but i got the fact that it wasnt something my mom wanted to hear coming out of my mouth.