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My mother used to believe that the word "shit" was a minor curse on the level of "damn it", and therefore thought it wouldn't do much harm to say it around the kids. She's in her forties, and she only found out the truth recently!
Maryanne
I thought that English was the only language that had swear words!
Bootlebat
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I thought there were some swear words so bad if you said them you would go to jail!
Mexicrat
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I use to think that flipping people off meant "hi".
kat
when I was very little, I used to believe "bum" was a bad word. This was because my grandmother was from england. since they say "bum" and not "butt". I figured bum was equvilant to ass
debbie
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When I started middle school, I heard these guys calling each other "bastards." I thought they were saying "pastors." I wondered why calling someone a "pastor" would be a bad thing.
Boomer
When I was about seven, my cousins and I believed it was okay to say curse words as long as you apologized to God directly afterwards. We would tentatively whisper, "Dammit!" and then look up at the sky and shout, "SORRY, GOD!!!!"
A Religious Child
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I thought assassin was a bad word for some reason (maybe because it has ass in it?)
Alberto Richardson
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When I was little, I believed that French had no cursewords because it was a "noble and sweet" language, like my teacher used to describe it!
Valentina
I used to think when I was about 3 or 4 that whenever someone said a swear word, God would zap that person with a lightning bolt that came out of his finger. The more often a person swore, the greater the voltage of the lightning bolt.
Sara
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When I was little, I went to Ukrainian dance camp, and my mom and I heard this man swearing. He said "Bullshit." I asked my mom what it meant, and she said she didn't know, it must have been something in Ukrainian. So the next day I went around asking all the grownups who spoke Ukrainian what "Bullshit," meant. Mom had some explaining to do.
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When I was about 6, my 13 yo cousin told me told me that sh!t meant bird, so I said do my mom, hey look at that cute little sh!t! Needless to say, my cousin was grounded.
I thought it was against the law to swear. I only knew it was bad, and imagined it to be as bad as stealing, murder ect.
Hoppip
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I thought "devil" was a swear for a long time. I also thought that if you swore, worms would grow in your mouth(something my mom said). So that certainly stopped me from swearing! I believed this until I was 9.
Hoppip
I was so paranoid as a kid when it came to swearing. I truely and actually believed that the phrase "shut up", even in a joking manner, was considered cussing.
Whenever I got mad on the playground, I would always yell "BE QUIET!!!" instead of shut up. Needless to say, that didn't really work. ^-^
But nevertheless, it wasn't until the fifth grade until I started saying "shut up".
Jessica
I’m Spanish speaker and I was until I was 35 y/o. When I was kid my parents never explained to me the meaning of some bad words but they told me they were bad words and as I heard them all the time with out understanding what they were talking about, I thought anything that I couldn’t understand was bad, at the same time the Beatles song became so popular on the radio and I was convinced that people liked to sing bad word songs.
Victor Ruiz
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My parents designated the words "hockey puck"as their swear word for idiot, jerk (insert truly bad word here). I grew up believing that hockey puck was a bad word not to be used in polite company.
Tory
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When I was young I heard the f-word often, along with the gesture that went with it, so to stop me from using it my father told me a secret. He said that there was something worse....you stick up your pinky finger and say "fitzel bitzel". Worked for years till I realized he made it all up.
When I was about 5 or 6 I asked my mom why people called African Americans "the n-word". She said and I quote:
"Oh, it's because they're always nigging you for money"
I believed that until I was in the 9th grade.
Guy
When i was 5 i would watch full house and when Michelle said heck i would cover my ears and say she is bad she said a curse word and my mom would giggle but keep watching and my sister would say that's not a bad word what the heck is your problem and i smacked her in the head my mom then told me that wasn't nice to do to my sister and heck wasn't a curse word oh i said why the heck you didn't tell me
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