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Posted on 10/17/2007 8:42:06 AM PDT by gjones77
Regular swearing at work can help boost team spirit among staff, allowing them to express better their feelings as well as develop social relationships, according to a study by researchers.
Yehuda Baruch, a professor of management at the University of East Anglia, and graduate Stuart Jenkins studied the use of profanity in the workplace and assessed its implications for managers.
They assessed that swearing would become more common as traditional taboos are broken down, but the key appeared to be knowing when such language was appropriate and when to turn to blind eye.
The pair said swearing in front of senior staff or customers should be seriously discouraged or banned, but in other circumstances it helped foster solidarity among employees and express frustration, stress or other feelings.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
having spent years in heavy industry with small and large crews operating machinery of all types, my experience is that with most groups of workers there are those who can’t utter a sentence without a four-letter word and those who don’t. Those who don’t usually just suck it up and go along to get along, but it does not lend to the cohesive, smooth running operation management seeks.
Plus, affirmative action has caused the addition of women to these crews. Some of them would put any foul-mouthed male to shame, but most women aren’t into swearing. I have been retired for a number of years, so I concur, before you say it, things may have changed - somewhat.
What a bunch of bull$#!+
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)(&_)(^ yeah!
Everyone %#$@ing knows that!
What exactly makes a ‘swear’ word a swear word? Sure saying the Lord’s name in vein is in the 10 commandments. What about any of the other ‘bad’ words? “Swear” words are the PCness of the right. It can’t go away fast enough. They are nothing but words and not supported by anything Biblical or logical.
LOL I haven’t cried that hard from laughing in months.
Pinging myself because a friend of mine NEEDs to read this ;-)
What makes a ‘profanity’ word a profanity word out of curiousity? What if I and 20 other people decide the word food was profanity? How many people need to decide the word is profanity before it is? Does it matter in what context the word is used in? Words are words. What matters is what you mean with them and how they are directed.
When I was in the army, I heard some amazing sentences. Something like, “You fcking fck fcker! I’ll fck you in the fcking fck with a fcking fuck, you fcking fck fcker!”
And that was just the chaplain.
I can’t wait to find the little paper in the pocket of my new pants that says, “These fcking pants in-fcking-spected by in-fcking-spector #23.”
A “swear” word is usually one of three varieties of words: profanity, vulgarity, or obscenity.
A “profane” word is one that has religious connotations. The various ways to use The Lord’s name in vain are the most prevelant examples of this form of swearing in English. In other languages there are other phrases that would be considered profane. (i.e. in French, the word “sacrer” is used as a profanity)
A “vulger” word or term is one that is “base or common”, from the Latin “vulgus”, meaning common people. It is terms that refer to bodily functions or their results or other language that would be “out of bounds” for polite company. (i.e. calling a woman a “female dog”, or questioning a man’s parents marital status)
An “obscene” word or term deals with sexual issues.
As language and cultural mores change, so does the idea of “swearing”. It used to be that men did not use profanity at all, obscenity only in rare occasions and vulgarity only when women and children were not present.
Now, anything goes in our culture it seems.
The pair said swearing in front of senior staff or customers should be seriously discouraged or bannedA female VP I worked for in a very large corporation used to talk about her boss "flopping his dick on the table" in meetings. We just laughed but did refrain from talking about her flopping her tits on the table. lol
A “vulger” word or term is one that is “base or common”, from the Latin “vulgus”, meaning common people. It is terms that refer to bodily functions or their results or other language that would be “out of bounds” for polite company. (i.e. calling a woman a “female dog”, or questioning a man’s parents marital status)On the other side I had a very southern aunt who never went to the restroom. She was always having to go "powder her nose." I'm pretty sure some vulgar sounds came from the bathroom where she did the powdering though. lol
“Foul language is for the Ignorant Mother F****er!”
HA!
I’m not going to take that bait. You know good and well what words are profanity, every walking breathing human above the age of 6 does and even younger many times. It is disgusting that people just spew garbage out of their mouth just because they can. Decent folks do not need to be assaulted every time they go to a sporting event, I hate hearing it myself, and it almost makes my head explode when it happens around my children.
What is considered profanity changes all the time and varies from person to person. Words are just words. People who get so offensive over a word on the right are just as PC as people on the left. Anyone who is that willing to let a word upset them isn’t worth my time. I can be derogatory towards people without using ‘curse’ words. I know some people who consider the word fanny a bad word. Others consider butt a bad word. Some consider ass a bad word. They all mean the same thing and none are inherently bad. Calling someone a butt or fanny or ass is derogatory. Saying my ass/butt/etc hurts is not derogatory. People who refuse to take things in context iritate me.
“G-d f’n ump can’t see his head from his a” Yep when I hear that kind of stuff I’m just being a prude I guess.
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