swearing

I was a 90's kid and The Violent Femms' "Add It Up" was always on the radio.
When we were really young my brother and I would think nothing of singing "Why can't I get just one screw?!" (Or worse), at the top of our lungs at any time in school.
We didn't really get what a curse word was and thought it was just another word like "cat" or "dog".

Anon

I used to believe that the word "stupid" was a swear. After finding out it wasn't, I used it continually for a week straight.

Anon

I used to believe that “shut up” was a swear word.

Anon

I used to believe that swearing was just saying, “I swear!”

Anon

i used to beleive that swearing would get you thrown i jail....and my dad was a police officer... i think that he told me that.

KELLY

I used to not kno what fag meant, and one day I called my friends older rother a fag and he slapped me. (I was about 5)

Owww! I didn't know better!

when i was at the age of 6 or so, i went to kids church (kinda like sunday school) and the conversation for that day was not to say Gods name in vein. well it was obviously clear that i didnt know what vein meant... at that point i thought it meant we were never to say it or it would be bad... so when we were at the dinner table saying our prayers my dad ended it with "in Jesus name i pray" and i stopped him abruptly and said "Dont say that! Its a bad word!" he stared at me with a confused look. soon my mom corrected me that its okay to say it but not as a swear word. im teased to this day and i can tell u right now i never say his name in vien :D

wait a gosh darn minute

When I was like 5, I heard the B word and I thought it sounded at LOT like peach so I beleived it wasn't a bad word but it still meant that you hated them. So when I was angry at my Mom, I called her the B word. Then my dad got angry at me and all that. So I found it was a bad word.

Michelle

I used to think that flipping someone the bird was called "f*cking them off." Additionally, someone once told me that "reller" was a euphemism for "sh*t," and I believed it.

Qit

when i was about 3yrs old (im gonna be 8 this yr) my uncle mark (hes 25 now) taught me how to do a swear word without saying any words all you had to do was 2 things sticking your little finger up means chienese swearing and the middle finger is English swearing.! my mum is 26

dionne

I was in primary school but hanging out with the 'older' girls... my little sister came over to me and asked me to play a skipping game with her and I told her to 'F*ck off'. I'd never even used those words before and had no idea where they had come from! But the older girls were saying it... My sister's eyes filled with tears and she walked away but ended up falling over and cut her knee. I felt instantly remorseful and felt like it was all my fault she got hurt. So I swore (pardon the pun) I'd never swear again. I now believe it's biologically impossible for me to swear!

dippingmytoes

When I was younger, I used to believe that if I though bad things, like curse words, that my dad would be able to read my mind and I would get in trouble. Silly, yeh?

To all the psychic fathers out there....

when my brother was little before I was even born, my uncle would after giving him instructions say kapiece (sp?) and my brother would respond, "go piss?" so when my dad said kapiece to him my brother said "go piss?" and looked at my cousins like they were to blame

Marah

I heard this joke when I was younger and the last line of it said "And my mom's f*cking the turkey" So (being very young) I thought that the mother was standing in my gramma's kitchen flipping the turkey off and cussing at it.

Venti V.

This wasn't mine, but a friend's:

When my mother asked if I had done something and I answered, "Yes, Mom, I swear," he said, "Oo-oo-ooh!" I asked why, and he said, "Swearing is cursing!"

C.C.