Comments on: Teaching Your Child to Curse

By: Pop

Pop — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:43:17 +0000

Growing up, I truly believed that cursing was merely the sign of a limited vocabulary. Then I watched linguist and (later) politician S.I. Hiakawa use a bullhorn to tell a demonstrator to “get the hell off the car” and had to rethink my position. Sometimes it is the only way to communicate effectively(as I discovered experientially in the army and certainly civilian situations). As you said, swearing is like comedy (OK, you didn’t say that; I put words in your mouth): timing is everything. And kids simply don’t have the frame of reference to have the timing.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:53:34 +0000

Filters? We’re supposed to have filters?! $#!&!!!!!!!

By: Joyous

Joyous — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:15:58 +0000

This was exactly my argument to people who felt it was perfectly fine to let their young children watch The Simpsons and South Park. (They’re cartoons, after all, and cartoons are for children, right?) Yeah, they’re funny as hell, but the *reason* they’re funny is that people *don’t* as a rule act like that. Children don’t have the sophistication to separate that out from “funny to act this way,” so you end up with 11 year olds running around singing the “Blame Canada” song.