Why do people find foul language Offensive?

It's the intent behind the use of the world and in BOOK OF MORMON is is there to deliberately shock/offend and titillate. Any word in place of the F-bomb in "_______YOU" is not exactly going to sound friendly.

But you are correct they are just words made up of innocent letters.

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I personally don't like bad language in everyday life not because I am offended by it (I use enough of it!) but because it's used out of laziness more than to make a point. The people at the college I attended would use the F-word and S-word as fill-ins for pretty much anything. To be honest, the line from Anything Goes, "Good authors too who once knew better words now only use four-letter-words writing prose, anything goes!" sums up what I mean.

Do I think that they can be used cleverly or to make a point? Yes. Do I think they often are? No.

"Offensive words offend.

That's what they are intended to do."

Yeah, but why are those words beyond any others considered offensive?

I also say this, because my friend mentioned like "well you don't want your children saying that do you?" I was like...listen...when they become adults they will..and you know they will...we protect our children as much as possible to be scared of certain things and to not do certain things, to later do them as an adult. Now, I am not saying we should use it everyday to our kids, but it just makes me laugh when my friend heard that word and she got so offensive over it...I was like listen its a word, yes not used every day where you're at, but somehow you new that word and you found it offensive, so you know that word exist. Just take respect of it and move on.... dont' get bent out of shape because you heard that word...its in the world, its used, period.

She left the room. LOL

"what if the word THE was a bad word?" Huh? But it isn't.
Surely you understand the difference between the two words? Do you also think that two people actually fornicating on the subway is no more offensive than their shaking hands?

I'm only offended when the word gets used so much that the effect is simply all about "see how many times we can use this word?" like they did in Mother F----R with the Hat. Sure some people talk that way, so it may be true to life. But I just don't care anything about people who have such limited vocabularies that the F word is the only word they seem to be able to use. It's almost as offensive as saying "you know", three times in each sentence. Either one tells me "this is a person with a complete lack of intelligence and class".

That said, I didn't find the use of language in Book of Mormon offensive.

""see how many times we can use this word?" like they did in Mother F----R with the Hat."

Sorry but that's the way people talk. Probably not the uncouth trash you would dare associate with, but for the people in that play and people like that it's the way people talk. We are not living in a Henry James novel and the sooner people accept that, the happier we'll all be.

Whether a 5 year old girl says her teacher is a "meanie" or a "bitch", the intent is the same, whether she knows it or not.

Updated On: 6/13/11 at 03:58 PM

I can tell you that in that dress you look like an obese cow who just gave birth to a dead baby cow that was cut up and sewn together to prepare the hideous abortion of an outfit you have on.

or

I can tell you that dress makes you look like a fat F*cking cow.

But I guess to some of you only the second would be offensive what cuz I useded a bad wordz.

"She left the room. LOL"


Good for her.

Different people have different standards.

That's true, After Eight, and everyone has to decide that for themselves. If she was truly offended, removing herself from the situation was a good idea.

In my experience, though, the people most likely to be offended by the words "hell" and "f*ck" are the same ones who think I'm going to the former for how I do the latter.

Well, why did you decide to capitalize the last word in this thread title? You see, the world is quite strange, and to try to understand it will only cause more confusion.

How the **** do I know?

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Jordan Catalano is right. It's not the words, it's the context and meaning behind what you are saying. Calling someone a silly stupid boob or a dumb f*&@ing bitch is the same. The intent to degrade the person you are speaking to and make them feel as worthless as you can is still the same no matter what words you use.

But regardless of that, society has deemed what words are inappropriate curse words and which words aren't. So there are some people who will find that language offensive and unnecessary and others who don't care. There are universally accepted times that are ok to use those words and universally accepted times when it isn't. The rest of the time, it depends in the people in the conversation and their levels of tolerance. Just be respectful to other people and their tolerance levels. Don't force your tolerance level on someone else and they shouldn't do it to you.

I will say though, before you start criticizing other people's understanding of language, maybe you should learn how to use the word your or you're properly.

I must admit I use foul language... in a comical sense. I enjoy it when it's used in a comical sense.

Do I like shoot 'em up movies where every other word is used to hurt someone more as they blow them away? No. But am I offended? No.

Would I say to someone, "F* you!" in anger or to belittle them? No. I am offended if I hear someone say something like that to someone.

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