[commodoreboxer]

People who get uptight about swearing irritate me. I understand getting upset about racial slurs or other actually loaded language, but getting upset about the word "fuck" but not "sex" is just making up things to be upset about.

[UberFly]

Some people just don't like the overall crudening of society. Get over it.

[pjerem]

I do think it’s an important social issue though.

Swear words communicate important and precise emotions that no other words can communicate.

I totally understand why some words aren’t appropriate in a given social setting but it doesn’t mean the words are forbidden. Also those words can hurt when they are directed towards someone and you have to be cautious with them. But sometimes you want to hurt someone, sometimes you want to shock your audience. Sometimes you just want to laugh.

We are animals full of emotions and we need precise words to communicate them rapidly.

[tgv]

> precise

I wouldn't call "fuck" precise. Its meaning is highly context dependent. Examples of use range from from disappointment (fuck) to anger (fuck you) to surprise (the fuck?) to delight ('merica, fuck yeah) to contempt (clusterfuck). It's closer to an intensifier than a precise denotation of a particular emotion, because it evades a precise meaning.

Other words certainly can communicate the same semantic function, but there isn't one that covers them all, even though shit comes close, which is a statement about the Freudian mind if there ever was one.

[tbrownaw]

Abstaining from extraneous precision is itself a kind of precision.

[anonzzzies]

Don't like or getting irritated are different things, at least for me. Irritation brings me in another state; for instance, if I am working (in the zone) and see/hear something that irritates me, I am out of the zone. However, if I see something I don't like, that doesn't do anything with my state; I will try to avoid the thing but won't give it a ms more thought. Not sure if that's a general thing or just me.

> Get over it.

Nah, people are different and you shouldn't get annoyed or irritated or tell people get 'get over it'; you can, but it's not very good for your health to care too much about stuff you cannot possibly change. Just don't hang with these people if you don't like them.

[worthless-trash]

You missed an opportunity to say "Get the fuck over it". :|