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<p>I disagree with that – I know plenty of people who never swear. I’m not opposed to swearing but generally don’t do it.</p>
<p>^yeah i dont swear much either</p>
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My memory of this period in my life is pretty poor, but I’ll offer an example dialogue.</p>
<p>Student 1: Well I think that maybe the US didn’t know about atrocities being committed in Rwanda. If we had known we would have helped, why wouldn’t we have?<br>
Student 2: Because loss of American life due to involvement in international conflict is intensely damaging to the public’s opinion of a sitting president. We withdrew from Somalia following the deaths of a whopping 19 US soldiers; who gives a **** about 800.000 sand ■■■■■■■ half a world away? Certainly not the US electorate.</p>
<p>Sand ■■■■■■■ - also called Dune Coons</p>
<p>hajji is the PC term</p>
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<p>That doesn’t make it proper or correct.</p>
<p>I’ve said some explicatives in class, but mostly to express mistakes or distress. I’ve said “****”!(poopoo) a couple times.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s classy to swear in class.</p>
<p>^ I don’t think it is either.</p>
<p>Honestly, unless you’re quoting, I don’t see a reason to swear in class. There is a time and place for those words, and I don’t think class time is it.</p>
<p>Music professor often uses “crazy ****” to describe something. F bombs are not too uncommon, but he doesn’t just swear all through lecture. It’s really for effect.</p>
<p>In my classes the professors or TA’s tend to curse a lot more than the students.
It’s more of a matter of respect I feel like. It’s also a matter of department, like I’d probably say “shi.t” or “f.u.c.k” in an answer to an English teacher before I would to a chem teacher.
There’s also a sort of vagueness between answers to the two fields, like “and then shi.t gets all f.u.c.ked up” could possibly answer a question about a book, but if you said it in orgo the teacher would be like, “sure, but where do the electrons go?”
Like my english professors will curse (or swear if you’re not from the north east) in context to a lecture, but for my science professor it’s much more likely in relation to something else. (like the time someone called out in a 200 person lecture that our 40 year old professor was forgetting things because she was too old and her answer was “Holy shi.t!..Where is he? I know it was a guy, so girls your grades are safe.” )</p>
<p>All the Chinese people on my floor who do not speak English call each other ■■■■■■■. They think it is like the hip thing to do. They probably think it is a Chinese word.</p>
<p>This one Chinese dude thought FiretrUCK was a Chinese word and asked us if we had a word for it in English.</p>
<p>My english teacher would use profanity every now and then. Me and him even had a conversation using the word "d"itch a ton of times, as my paper’s topic was on the redefinition of that word. Some good paper topics in that class.</p>
<p>tobacconchocolat - Are they saying it like “hey n-” and laughing or does it sound like it’s normal conversation? I ask this because in Chinese, saying “that” like “I want that one” kind of sounds like the n-word.</p>
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