What the Fudge?

I couldn't even write it in the title.  Fuck.  That word and others in it's vein make me cringe.  I didn't always use to be this prudey and it's only been the last couple of years that I've noticed this internal reaction to a combination of letters strung together.  Notice I even took Bitch out of my blog title?

Even in my younger years, I was never a big swearer.  Sure, some mild swearing, the type you hear on TV nowadays i.e. bitch, crap, ass, occasionally pepper my world.  If I'm really mad or have an unexpected injury the f-bomb has been known to slip out, but it embarrasses me.  When my kids were little and experimenting with language I told them words were nothing but letters and sounds put together, but it was the meaning people ascribed to them that made them important. Words and language fascinate me.  What they mean, how we learn them, their origin, how they're spelled, how words in other languages can be very similar.  I've taken classes in Spanish, American Sign Language, Mandarin Chinese and French but only remember a few words of the latter two and a dabbling of the former.

I've seen facebooks posts and memes recently that extol the virtues of swearing -  people who swear tend to be more honest and trustworthy, that swearing releases emotion that relieves pain, etc.  Interestingly, regular words and swear words come from different areas of the brain.  This article  explains how it works and makes a lot of sense.  Maybe it's not the curse words I'm uncomfortable with but the display of emotion. Though, a lot of swearing I see on facebook doesn't come from emotion, more of just a word filler.  Anyhoo, I've been sitting on this post for months now and thought I'd put it out there.