hardly ever watch the show and never seen that episode. i got the idea from an old friend. maybe he was a Seinfeld fan.
Not yet (again... 5-yrs old.. kindergarten)... Probably not far away from it, though. Yeah. It is. So are "b****" and "b*stard"... "hell" (when used in a profane way like "what the hell" ). When you say them, you're using profanity.
frick or frig are to f**k as crap is to sh**...no? i understand damn, hell, b****, b*stard, ass, c*nt, and all that...but i thought crap was what i call a vegetarian swear word... ...like heck, biyatch, arse, gosh (when yelled sounds funny), frick, etc.
No. frick and frig were casually invented within the past 25 years as a non-profane replacement for f***. Crap and sh** are both profane words and have been for a very long time.
I'm sorry droxford, but I don't buy that "crap" is a profane word. If it is then so is "turd" as well as "shucks" and "shoot".
interesting perspective that i haven't really heard of before now. i find it interesting that we all put astericks for f*** and sh** but nobody would even think of saying "crap" like "cr**".
Exactly. It's intent. If you tell somebody shut up just because you don't want to hear what they have to say, then it is rude. Period. If I'm in a business meeting and somebody tells me to shut-up, hmmm. If I'm at a bar talking and somebody at the next table tells me to shut-up, that's fighting words. Why is it different with children amoungst themselves? But you can say shut up in other contexts that would be ok. Like Elaine from Seinfeld used to say shut-up all the time and it was funny.
where did y'all grow up that "crap" is not a bad word? i have never thought of it as or heard of anyone else who thought of it as just a replacement word like heck. i mean it's low on the totem pole of swear words, but definitely is one. as for "shut up," i don't ever remember having a rule to not say it. i can't remember any instances in which i said it and what my parents did but it seems like the kind of thing they would have had no problem with. they weren't strict with unimportant little things like that. now any cuss word was a no go. i'm 24 and i still can't really swear around them, even though they use do (though nothing too bad). it's just ingrained in me. although i did drop an F bomb when playing ncaa 2k6 with my sister one time (are you ****ing kidding me, i tackled him) before i realized where i was. of course it was no big deal and everyone just laughed. as a side note, i got a technical in our IM league yesterday from some stick-up-his-ass ref for swearing. i didn't direct it at him and wasn't even looking at him and didn't even say it that loud (i was just talking to myself) and didn't even know it was a rule, but he T'd me up.
Crap is a profane by-word for fecal matter. A lot of by-words are used in place of a better phrase because of a lack of vocabulary. "Shut up" can easily be a show of disrespect, especially among children if directed at an adult. So... shut up, droxford! Crap! I'm tired of debating this. This thread is male bovine fecal matter.
While "shut up" was disrespectful - I would get in big trouble if I ever used it with my parents or superiors, and even if I had told another kid that I would have been told that it was "rude" - it wasn't like a cuss word. My parents had strict standards for language, though. They considered profanity - or at least unacceptable crude language - to include cr@p, b!tch, p!ss, (just making sure these don't get censored), f@rt, @ss, +urd, sucks, and even "butt". (now, that was just asking too much. I did say that one at least when my mom wasn't around) "Arse", however, was allowed. Since I like to have something to say, I always used substitutes: biyatch, shiznit, freakin', PO'ed, BS, screw, that blows (but it's the same as saying that sucks)... you get the idea. But it's late at night and I'm posting way the heck too darn much.
My dad and mom thought that it was a bad word as well. Anytime i said it i was in for a whoopin or i should just take off running....definently was looked upon as disrespectful. I think it had a bit more to do with the fact that if you said something along those lines of "shutup" in my language...it's pretty harsh and disrespectful.
