RAEVILLE

Friday, September 30, 2005

A 12-year-old boy swears at the mistake he has done with his homework at school. His teacher catches him and tells him that he is too young to be swearing.

So tell me, what is the appropriate time to swear?

Is there even a specific age to when you can start swearing? Is it illegal to swear if you're underage? Heck, is there even a law?

It's strange how people say you're too young to swear. If that is so, when the hell is it right to swear then? Eighteen? Twenty-one? I have never heard of an international law that says you must be this age to swear and be vulgar. If there's no legal age to swear, then everyone is entitled to swear or are allowed to swear. Whether you are only 10-years-old, or 8, it's perfectly OK to swear.

But swearing is rude. It's inappropriate. It's just not good.
It's bad. It's vulgar. It's rude.

I think there's really no use telling someone not to swear. Everyone swears, one way or another. Damn. Shit. Holy crap. Mother of Jesus. What the heck. Oh my God. Goddamn. One way or another.

You can't really teach a child not to swear anymore. It'd be difficult. My generation's vulgarity is so saturated, that there's no way our children are going to escape from us swearing infront of them. At school. You hear an older kid swear. 'It's got to be cool if you swear!' You pick up a trend. It's cool. It's hip. Here goes, huh?

What children should be taught, is when not to swear. There is a time when you shouldn't be rude and swear. For example: you shouldn't swear infront of elders (even if they themselves swear). It's disrespectful and very rude. Another example, is that you shouldn't openly swear. In public. In a loud voice. Imagine you're a parent, and you child swears out loud in public while you're with some friends. How embarassing would it be? Your child just swore in vulgarity. Now your friends think you're a bad parent, and you're not a good example to your child. Your reputation among the other parents decreases.

Uh-oh?

It's quite a question to ask.
What is the age to be swearing?
When can one swear?
If a 12-year-old is too young to swear, then when is not young?

What do you think?
Cheers.

& turned on the lights; 10:40

about me.

raelene. rae. roro.
eighteen years.
malaysian.
completed her final year of school at st caths, sydney.
is a musician, photographer and aspiring designer.
loves travelling, art, music, great food, clear blue skies, writing and ice-cream.
enjoys drowning in music, strumming random chords on the guitar, playing tennis,
finger-bashing it out on a game console and a bowl of curry laksa.
despises bad traffic, girls with long and fair faces with large contact-lensed eyes, bad food, mascara goop, hard pillows and hard beds.

raeville.

RAEVILLE came about some time in the year of 2001. or 2002. it's been so long that i've forgotten already.
it all started here (i doubt the link works anymore though), in a dodgy little blog page. then it moved to here. a year later, and we moved to better things, namely blogspot.

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