A F**cking Fun Investigation

We Love To Pepper Our Language With An ‘E This’ Or A ‘No Sh!T’, But There’s More To It Than Just Throwing Down A Swear For Sh!ts And Giggles, Discovers Pottymouth Mel Evans.

- Pottymouth Mel Evans

‘Scuse my French, but letting out a swear every now and then feels f***ing good, doesn’t it? Not only does a little colourful language show our passion and bring some spice to a sentence, it’s also been proven to be good for us on the inside.

And, we’re quite a sweary generation, with a recent study finding that threequarters of Gen Y are comfortable swearing in the office, compared to 58 per cent of Gen X and Baby Boomers (bunch o’ squares).

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There has been a real change in our view of swearing. It wasn’t too long ago that ‘sh!t’ was bleeped before the non-prime-time hour of 8.30 PM. Now, the F-bomb is being dropped all day, every day. Monika Bednarek, senior lecturer in linguistics at the University of Sydney, examined TV in the United States and found The Wire averaged more than 100 instances of profanity per episode. We’re like sponges, sucking up every word.