<p>My school is certified liberal school and it I think its too liberal for my taste. Swearin in class is real alien concept for me. In our high school eveen inadvertant outburst of obscenety was not tolerated. Here almost everyone uses the f word. Professors who look like seventy (they are real ancient and wear top hats) say things like "Then **** one- **** all, is that what you are sugesting?" when i am making my point in class. And we are reading Herodotus and Plato.Another student speaks up "It all makes sense except for that *<strong><em>ing...."Its real surrealistic. Professors bring audio material which should have been filled with beeps in our high school, usually to teach "culture." And occasional outbrusts of "how the *</em></strong> did you get that? " is routine in our math class. I am not bluenose killjoy and think myself a liberal but its getting all real wierd uncomfortable. any suggestions?</p>
<p>This is how the adult world is. Loosen up. Care less.</p>
<p>Grow up about it. I've handed in art projects with the word **** in bold print. We didn't have many people swearing in class, but I can't say it never happened.</p>
<p>You might be happier in a different school. I've taught college and have attended and visited several colleges ranging from Ivies to third tier colleges, and have never been in one in which such swearing was the way that professors and students communicated with each other.</p>
<p>Lots of time students communicate with each other using swearing, but professors in general have larger vocabularies and don't rely on swearing to get their points across in the classroom. To me, what you describe sounds lazy on the part of the professors and the students.</p>
<p>In most professional fields, it's also looked down upon to make one's business points by swearing. There really are more effective ways of communicating.</p>
<p>Guess you never spent much time in IBanking. Or at Microsoft.</p>
<p>Yeah, I feel pretty uncomfortable when my English professor just sprinkles the f and s words into her conversation.</p>
<p>The last time I was in a class where the teachers didn't swear I was probably in sixth grade.</p>
<p>Um, it's just a word. It's not like they overuse it I'm sure. You'll be hearing the words everywhere you go in your life anyway, so might as well get used to it.</p>
<p>I remember that one of my teachers in high school would require you to give up like $.50 everytime you swore, better than being sent out of class I guess.</p>
<p>I guess I can kind of understand based on the fact my parents forbid me from swearing, so it always was akward for a long time when people would around me, but I got acquainted with it, and it doesn't bother me anymore, it's something you have to deal with, because it'll never go away. :p</p>
<p>It seems like a very poor reason to want to go to a different university.</p>
<p>thats a pretty effing bad reason to want to switch schools. did my "swearing" make u uncomfortable? :P sorry then...</p>
<p>i totally agree with you..i would never feel comfortable in that kind of environment..btw, which college do you attend?</p>
<p>This is NOT the way "adult world" is. I find it rather pathetic that a supposedly well-educated individual resorts to swearing - supposedly setting an example for the students in the class. I am involved with many heated discussions on a daily basis - critical decisions on research paths, etc. with other very intelligent, opinionated Ph.D. scientists. At no time does anyone resort to what I consider to be gutter language. </p>
<p>I don't know that that is a reason to transfer. I would hope that other classes and professors do not lower themselves to this level.</p>
<p>Secondtimearound, you need to get over it. No offense, but yes, there are people who swear. They obviously don't care that it is pathetic or "uncouth" to do so, and you don't need to care either. If others want to do that, then that is their prerogative. Therefore, **** that :P</p>
<p>Swearing doesn't make me feel uncomfortable; I just think it's uncultured. Fortunately the teachers at my high school seem to share that viewpoint.</p>
<p>I tend to swear when I am around certain people, but around others I refuse to. In big lecture halls I rarely have heard teachers swear. In more intimate discussion classes the worst I ever heard was the s-word. In "official" class time, I have never heard an f-bomb. (by an instructor toward students)</p>
<p>one of my first days of intro to macroeconomics, it's an auditorium, probably 300 kids packed in this place and our professor proclaims 'UT is more ****ed up than the military'. Everyone got a good laugh out of it, and it's not like he's some lowly educated professor. He graduated from Harvard and served in the navy, and has taught at UT for many years.</p>
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I think the point was that it makes you sound uneducated, regardless of whether you actually are.</p>
<p>I don't know if there is an English equivalent, but in French they speak of "registres de langue", differentiating between argotique (gutter talk), familier (familiar), courant (casual/everyday), and soutenu (formal). It is commonly accepted that the level of conversation in a classroom should be at the very least "courant", if not "soutenu". I tend to agree.</p>
<p>But maybe I'm just horribly old-fashioned.</p>
<p>Who really gives a **** about swearing? They are just words, and by no means do they signify lower intelligence as some seem to be suggesting. Personally, if a teacher happens to throw in a curse word every now and then, I feel more comfortable, not less, as it shows me that he or she is a down to earth person who doesn't possess an attitude of being too "eminent" to use the language of the people.</p>