I’m planning to write another post eventually on swear words in general, so this is sort of like an appetizer.
This is a story of the first (and only) time I’ve said the f-word.
But before we get to that, I’d like to talk about this tongue twister. (“Mother Pheasant Plucker”. You can imagine how well that goes. I am scared to even attempt it.) I have an acquaintance who introduced me to this song and she has managed to perfect this twisty tongue twister, but whenever she sings it, I get very nervous.
So on to the story.
When I was in second grade, I, like any other sane second grader, loved Kidz Bop and one day dreamed being among their ranks of singers. I remember that I bought Kidz Bop 19 at one point, but that was the only album of theirs that I bought or listened to. But even without having heard a majority of their unoriginal songs, I knew that I adored them.
I also thought that all the songs that they chose to sing were curse word-free.
I was watching TV one day, as I did on the majority of days, and I happened to come across one of Kidz Bop’s advertisements, in which they sang a clip of a song, Starship.
I immediately adored this song.
As a second grader, I knew that some songs had swear words and were not appropriate for second graders like myself. But my new favorite song (I know, I had bad taste back then) had been sung by Kidz Bop, right? So it didn’t have any bad words, right?
Well, when I was in second grade, I knew of the existence of bad words. I didn’t know what they were.
My Vocabulary of Curse Words
Stupid
Hate
Heck
Whatever
So I looked up the lyric video on Youtube and set to work on learning the song. I was quite confused when I saw that they hadn’t finished a word and instead had “f” and a bunch of asterisks. I thought that the person who made the lyric video hadn’t been able to hear the word properly and had given up. But I was not like this person. I was persistent. So I listened hard and figured out what the word was.
I had learned the entire song, even the rap parts, and I was very proud of myself. (This song is by Nicki Minaj, may I add.)
I was ready to go to the next level.
I performed the song for my father.
F-word and all.
I wasn’t allowed to watch Youtube for a month.
P.S. In the Kidz Bop version, the word is replaced with “We’re Kidz Bop and we’re taking over.”
What are they taking over?
HI! I wrote a post about the f-word a few months ago. I thought you might enjoy it, so here’s the link to the post:
https://overthehillontheyellowbrickroad.com/2017/11/04/conversation-withthe-f-word-as-it-speaks-out-on-older-age/
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That’s a lovely post. 😊
I like the way it’s a conversation.
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Thanks so much!
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I’m not much of a swearer myself and I know the situation where you use one without knowing. And to contribute to the music discussion I don’t know who Kidz Bop are and I’ve heard of most of the rappers but am not a fan, I was brought up on things like Queen, Meatloaf and Metallica.
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Kidz Bop is a group of children who re-sing hit songs and replace the curse words with other things that sometimes make no sense.
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“I performed for my father.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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when i was a kid, i had a great vocabulary for cuss words. as i grew, so did my vocabulary – and expended into other languages as well. i can’t tell you my grade when my vocabulry grew, but i know i was very young. i was careful though, never to use them near the adults and elder kids, because i knew they were bad. and no youtube for me when i was growing, as it didn’t exist! i was a kid, i guess, back on the days dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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I had a low curse word vocabulary when I was in elementary school. As I said, I considered words like “stupid” and “idiot” to be curses and I still refrain from using them unless I’m talking about a particularly awful book.
I didn’t learn any bad words until middle school, where other kids also used them (quite often). But I didn’t know which ones were bad words. I quickly figured out thought that the words that I hadn’t heard before and I couldn’t figure out from the context were curse words. This is because curse words are usually unnecessary and sentences make perfects sense without them.
A Random Note: When I lived in Kentucky for a while, a common greeting when meeting new people was “Do you curse?”.
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and the reply to this greeting?
i wonder, ‘very much’, or ‘not enough’?
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Mostly I was so surprised by the question (which I wasn’t used to hearing) that I didn’t answer in what is considered a proper amount of time.
After asking them to repeat the question, I would usually say, “What do you think?”.
(No, I don’t swear.)
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would it have surprised them if you said, ‘yes, very much, thank you?’ and no, i don’t swear either, i’m a mother of three.
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Probably not. These were new people that I was meeting for the first time. And I think they were asking for permission if they could swear in my vicinity. Which is actually quite polite. At least more so than if they had just begun swearing.
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I just dropped an F Bomb over a pickle, so I cannot relate.
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What did the pickle do to you?
I try to use swear words sparingly and only in my head. But even in my head, I don’t use anything above freaking.
Spinette and I use “blobfish” in place of swear words out loud.
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It yodels and it’s yodeling before R&D had a chance to finish making a singing penis. I’m not a graceful loser.
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Uh. Okay.
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When I was that age I was bumping 50 cent, Eminem, Dr Dre etc.
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No idea what that means. My favorite song when I was younger was It’s Time by Imagine Dragons.
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Wdym you don’t know what that means?
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What is $.50, m&m, Dr.Dree, and etc.?
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Rappers (classic hip hop)
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I do like Twenty-one Pilots, but that’s basically all the rap I listen to. I prefer rock.
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Twenty one pilots isn’t really rap but okay
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That’s true. But I said it in order to expand on previous topics and extend the conversation.
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Oh, okay. Soz
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And what does soz mean?
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Sorry, are you new to the internet? (Not being rude just wondering)
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Nope. I’ve been playing on the Internet forever. Just generally oblivious.
I’ve looked up soz (using the Internet 😉). It means sorry.
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Oh okay, gj
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A gj means good job! I already knew that because I looked it up last week after someone texted me with it.
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Haha
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Same. Don’t forget Tupac as well. In Da Club, Hit ‘Em Up, Candy Shop… those were the days.
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Yeah, I didn’t get into Tupac til a couple years later.
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