<p>I don't have an issue with swearing. However, it's more accepted here than it is in the US.</p>
<p>Swearing is common in many situation were you think is it not. Ever been in an operating room during an intense surgery? You will almost always hear it. Same with lawyers discussing amongst themselves, and doctors, and yes even the older ones. The more you hang around people in social settings, the more you will hear that no matter how educated they are, they will swear. Its not big deal, if it bothers you that much you should consider Bob Jones U.</p>
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I think I speak for many of the others on this thread when I say this: it's not that it bothers me, I just think it's unnecessary. Cursing occasionally is perfectly all right; I do it myself. It's cursing excessively that I, personally, as I am entitled to, do not especially care for. I don't think that's classy. That is my opinion. If you think differently that is your prerogative.</p>
<p>By the way, considering that I'm an atheist... I don't think BJU would want me.</p>
<p>KTHXBYE. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>For the most part I've had very few professors actually swear infront of the class. The only exception I can really think of off the top of my head is the Freedom of Communications (basically looks at the freedom of speech) class I'm currently taking. Since most of the class deals with very questionable speech, one would have to expect it however.</p>
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<p>QED... :-/</p>
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<p>Sleep-deprived attempt at sarcasm. That is all.</p>
<p>""Q.E.D." (sometimes written "QED") is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase "quod erat demonstrandum" ("that which was to be demonstrated"), a notation which is often placed at the end of a mathematical proof to indicate its completion."</p>
<p>As a parent, I have an issue with professors swearing in class. There is simply no need for it and IMO it degrades the professor and the students. I'm not talking about on occasional word, but those who seem unable to converse without obscenities. Unbelievably, I even attended a parent meeting for admitted students where one professor just had to pepper his talk with vulgarities. I think this misguided individual thinks swearing makes him appear to be "cool" to the students. Some think he is cool, but many are disgusted.</p>
<p>The real problem with swearing is that it has gotten boring. Constant repetition of the same two or three dozen terms has turned them into ineffective verbal fecal matter. What used to have shock value is now so commonplace that it has practically become an expected linguistic social lubricant.</p>
<p>Peter and Lou Berryman noted this phenomenon more than twenty years ago. See <a href="http://members.aol.com/berrymanp/alyrics/37acha.html%5B/url%5D">http://members.aol.com/berrymanp/alyrics/37acha.html</a> and <a href="http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/berryman2-17.m3u%5B/url%5D">http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/berryman2-17.m3u</a></p>
<p>BassDad--you must have a Madison past??</p>
<p>rainbow kirby: In the (terrible, but funny) teen movie Eurotrip, one of the American teens makes a comment to a British football fan after he has this soliloquy interspersed with all these swear words. "Wow, you guys are like, on a whole different level of swearing over here!"</p>
<p>Swearing is just poor language (not to say that I don't do it!) and it has lost its shock value, as another poster noted.To belittle someone as worthy only of Bob Jones U for their natural distaste for swearing is just silly. I swear from time to time (I try not to, but sometimes I can't think of anything else), I don't mind swearing (though I would prefer something else, and an instructor swearing throughout their language would seem odd to me). Catcher in the Rye level of swearing doesn't bother me--his constant swearing illustrates his "teenager" side, his youthful frustration. Still, I would love to see less swearing in the world and a classroom is a little too formal to swear regularly. </p>
<p>As one of my (English) teachers once said, "Can't you express your feelings more eloquently!?"</p>
<p>I have only one professor who ever swears in class and only says "sh**"--and she does it for a laugh. Swearing has no place in almost any classroom situation. It indicates a lack of thought on the speaker's part for there is always a better word to explain something with. If a teacher was regularly swearing I would be put off and probably drop the course because it is likely that the quality of instruction is rather poor with a teacher who has trouble using the proper words to express themselves and answer students. And I swear regularly, but it is only with my friends for emphasis, and only about stupid meaningless things. Its rather anti-academic, like saying "ain't" when you could have used the proper word "isn't" .</p>
<p>Barrons,</p>
<p>Nope, never even been to Madison. I know Berryman and Berryman from shows they have done at our local folk club here in New Jersey.</p>
<p>i swear way too much.
and while im just an 06er and thus have nothing of real importance to contribute to this conversation, i must say that i dont mind when any of my teachers curse-its often rather funny.
i was slightly afraid on my college interview, though, that some word would just fly out of my mouth since over the last few months almost everything i say is in bad taste.
woe is me.</p>
<p>come on ppl, its swearing. welcome to adulthood</p>
<p>My freshman psych class helped a fellow student with a research project by conditioning my professor to curse excessively. Every time she cursed, we would give her a big smile and laugh. She took the bait and by the end of the semester she was cursing like a sailor and using words Id only heard in Scottish bars.</p>
<p>Swearing doesnt really bother me, so I found the whole situation to be quite amusing. I think that if you want to complain about something within the university system, a cursing professor is surely the most trivial.</p>
<p>Too funny, dot!</p>
<p>stop being a conservative baby and come out of it, ur acting like the religious right , anyways its college, its life, if u think thats hardcore, wait till you get out there in the real world</p>
<p>I have had a couple professors swear in class, but I really don't care.</p>
<p>Chang, "if u think thats hardcore, wait till you get out there in the real world"
Depending on the level of professionalism in your job and life, I would have to disagree with you. The people in my "real world" have used swearing far less than the students at my school.</p>
<p>The store where I work is located right SMACK in the middle of the religious heartland...but the kind of language I hear there would make a sailor blush.</p>