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I have no qualms about swearing when my friends are around or whatever, but I try to avoid it when I can. I have a rule that I don't swear around my parents and extended family. A sign of respect, I suppose, I don't know. I conciously make the efforts to avoid taking the lord's name in vain- I replace them, so;
"Jesus Christ!" becomes "Jesus Tonight!" in the same inflection
"Oh My God" becomes "Oh my goodness" or something like that
"Holy Shit" becomes.. well. hmm.
Anyway, I think I usually have the right frame of mind to dig into my vocabulary and find something to replace swearing. Where someone would usually say "thats shit", I'll say "that is ruthlessly awful", or something to that tune. So yeah. Cussing. It's alright.
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