swearing

i used to belive that saying "shut up" was the biggest curse word and one day my cousin who is older than me said shut up to me and i ran up to my mom and clung on to her crying and at the same time trying to tell her that he called me a shut up

jay k.

When i was like 8 me and my friends had a "band".
we called it a band but we really argued more than we played. so anyway, i used to think that f**k meant be quiet,so whenever or drum guy started playing, i would look at him and say, "f**k your drums, u suck!" he would look at me shocked. i also didn't know what "u suck" refered to.

leetle mon

I remember that when my friend's sister was really little she thought that the pointer finger was the "swear finger", so she would always start counting with her middle finger.

Anon

I used to think that genuflect was a bad word. I mean, come on! What does that sound like to you?

We weren't a very religious family...

I also used to think harass was a bad word, because of sexual harassment.

Anon

I used to believe around age four that if I were to say a bad word in my mind (think it) that my parents would magically find out and punish me for it.

Lady V

When I was about 4 and in pre-school, I didn't know how to say "truck" and would say it as "fuck." Well, every Friday my grandpop would pick me up from school and I would stay at my grandparents house for the weekend. Everytime it was dismissal and everyone would go outside to go home, I would see my grandpop's truck and yell excitedly, "Papa's fuck! Papa's fuck!" Everyone would CRACK up. I mean, I didn't know any better. And better yet, my grandpop had those roll-up handles to close the windows and since I a little too young to operate those rolling handles, instead of saying something like, "close the truck's window" I would say "Fuck the window."

Kids will be kids!

Asia

This guy I knew used to think that sticking his first finger up was a swear word. So whenever he used to think he was bad, he used to go around sticking his first finger up...Rebel lol!!

First finger badass

I used to think that stupid was a curse, and when my dad took me to the hard rock cafe there was a song on called 'stupid girl' or something (it was a long time ago) where the girl sais stupid about 17 times in a row. I was in shock. my dad was like 'what?'

i also used to think that cursing was saying a bad word, and that the word 'swearing' was a bad word. And for a while, that they both meant casting a mean spell on someone...

Anon

I misheard kids talking about the "middle finger" and thought for a very long time that it was the "little finger" that was a rude gesture.

Anon

I thought that shark was a bad word since it almost rhymes with fart!

Catte

I resent my mom for laughing at me when I asked, after a visit to the department store, "Why do men swear?"...of course it was the menswear dept.

R. Owen

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)!

Mungojelly

i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.

Anon

I used to believe that you couldn't swear until you were like 19 or 20 years old! I actually remember asking my mom: "When can I swear?"

boo

I used to believe that if I said words like hell, devil or words related to that. I would be calling the devil and go straight to hell. I remember I would somtimes crawl under a blanket and whisper all those words because then the devil wouldn't hear me.

rene

My sister used to think that "spit" was a bad word. She meant "shit".

"Spit!"

Once in elementary school our teacher instructed us to write a skit. So I wrote "skit" in big cursive letters on my notebook. The kid next to me thought my 'k' was an 'h' and started gasping and saying, "You cussed!" For several years afterward I was convinced that "skit" was the s word and avoided using it at all costs.

Melissa

Because of the way swear words were censored on TV when i was little, i thought the' F word" was actually 'fuff'. I think i thought that until i was 9 or 10

Anon

I never believed that "p*ss" was a swear word. My friend chris tried 2 tell me when i was like 7-

me (very loudly): p*ss isn't a swear word!!!!
chris (in hushed tones): yes it is!!
me: no! its just the sound u make when ur pretending to go to the toilet!
chris: i promise, its a swear word!
me: no it isn't!!
etc.etc.
i just wouldnt believe it! (unfortunately...)

acey

I used to not kno what fag meant, and one day I called my friends older rother a fag and he slapped me. (I was about 5)

Owww! I didn't know better!