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The Swearwords and Being Mature I agree with the theory of one gets more mature as he gets older. But some get mature ungraciously. One of the example is the use of swearword. Blaming on the influence of media many teenagers overuse those swearwords. It sounds attractive for them to be able to chose the words effectively. Repeating one swearword doesn’t bother them a bit. In my opinion some adults rarely use them. It is much worse and immature than teenagers in this case. Recently I became one of them. It happened during the conversation with my friend about the insurance. I couldn’t stop showing my anger. I always tell my darling friends jokingly I know a lot of Spanish swearwords but I had never said them to my friends. I said it to him, “I am sorry. I know it is a bad word.” Then I said one of the swearword. Immediately I felt like I just robbed the bank. My only swearword with hate is much more immature than a lot of swearwords used by young people. The young people usually use them for little things. (Sometimes serious things) but I was so sarcastic and used it just to satisfy my ego. How embarrassing and immature! Thanks to my friend, he just smiled. I already lived two decades and still have to learn to be one mature and good person.

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Swearwords/Swears and Being Mature/Maturity

I agree with the theory that one gets/becomes more mature as he becomes/gets older. But some  mature ungraciously. One example is the use of swearwords/swears. Blaming the influence of media, many teenagers overuse swearwords. It sounds attractive for them to choose effective words. Repeating one swearword/swear doesn’t bother them a bit.

In my opinion, some adults rarely use swearwords/swear. In this case, it is much worse and immature than teenagers. Recently, I started to use them. It happened during  a conversation with my friend about insurance. I couldn’t stop  my anger. I always tell my friends jokingly that I know a lot of Spanish swearwords/swears but I had never said them before.


I said to him, “I am sorry. I know this is a bad word.” Then I said one of the swearwords. Immediately I felt like I just robbed the bank. My one swearword of hate was much more immature than a lot of swearwords used/said by young people. Young people usually use them for little things, but sometimes for serious things.  I was sarcastic and used it to satisfy myself. How embarrassing and immature! My friend just smiled. I have lived two decades and still have to learn to be a mature and good person.

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Thank you for leaving your comment. I really appreciate your comment and input regarding my paragraph. I believe I understood your paragraph. Thank you! I 100 percent agree with you about a swear word isn’t a taboo word. Trevor Noah is a great comedian and he uses a swear word sometimes:) I wrote a same paragraph in Spanish and I left a same comment to the person who corrected my paragraph. “Even I tried to explain in Japanese, I would be able to explain it clearly.” :) I should have put my thought together before I submit my notebook:) So I will try my best to explain to clear out what I meant when I wrote this paragraph. I have to admit I might have misunderstood your explanation. Yes, they are just words and at this time I made the lister to feel heavy emotions. However because of my anger and emotion were so strong, I intentionally used a swear word to express it in a sicercastyic manner. In my case I made the lister to misguide intention of the speaker. My action disgusted myself. Thank you again for your input. Have a nice weekend!
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What is the function of a swear word? Well, first of all, like all words it's basic functionality as a word of any kind, is to express or convey a thought a feeling or concept. So what makes a swear word a swear word? The fact that it's taboo? No, because many words can be taboo without being a swear word. So what does it do that makes it different? It invokes emotions. What does it express? It expresses extreme emotion. It tells the audience that you are extremely emotional about the subject at hand. If being able to express yourself effectively brings you relief, than you've put that word to work for you. That is true mastery of a language. If it hurt someone else, and you gained relief from that, than you needed someone to relate to you, and you pushed them into relating with a negative feeling. Knowing that they do relate is the source of your relief. Try learning to trust in other's ability to relate to basic human emotions without having to be brought to that emotional state to realise it. Then you will have matured as a speaker. As a listener, if you allow the words of a speaker to bring you to an emotional state that you do not want to be in, you need to learn that words are just tools, and it doesn't matter if the speaker is motivated to use their word choice because they want to convey an emotion or if they intend to bring you to a state you don't want, either way, they just feel heavy emotions and thus just need someone to relate to them. Also realise that words are just vibrations in the air that will dissipate in less than a second... they're just words. Allow the meaning to move you, not misguided intentions of the speaker, then you will have matured as a listener as well.
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i'm fine thank you. how about you? do you want to learn arabic. here i am. :)
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Thank you for your comment Emily, how are you doing? Yes, it has also been the phenomenon in Japan too. I know it is fun at first but at the end it is not a good way to learn English. They don't know people don't use it daily. Have a nice weekend! I want to say the language (Arabic, right?) in Algeria is so beautiful. I wish I could speak it!

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