To curse or not to curse....
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curiouscrowthat, apparently, is the question.
So, everyone on my flist knows that I don't curse yeah? If you didn't you do now!:P Anyways, at work today an officer came in and someone said something down the hall and he said STFU. But he it made it sound something like: stew-fo and I was like what the crap? So I turned around and asked him what he just said. He told me it was an acronym and- I cut him off there because I knew what he meant then. And, of course, he asked me what it meant. So I told him that I didn't curse but I knew what it meant. It's usually not a big deal about me not cursing. All the girls in the front now I don't. He sat down and started pestering me with questions.
Is it a religious thing?
Is it how you were raised?
Do you think people that curse are bad people?
What...the...crap!!!?
I told him no to all of the above and that I just felt that I sounded stupid cursing. Not ignorant stupid just like the words don't come out sounding right from my mouth. I told him that I think some people can make it sound...well not cool but how I THINK it should sound. LMAO! You have to understand I have a rather high pitched voice and everyone still thinks I'm about 18 even though I'm 27. I'm not complaining about that!
Now, I know people that read my stories and/or don't really talk to me aside from that aspect, probably thought that I cursed like a sailor. Nope! But when I'm writing a character I actually hear their voice in my head! I don't know if that's common place or not but it's not my voice so I think they sound completely different saying something that I wouldn't! Take, for example, Caine from Lycan Tales who everyone knows can't talk without cursing. Something happens that has him completely and utterly confused. Would he say:
"What the crap?"<~~which is what I say ALL the time!
or
"What the FUCK man?"<~~~Totally Caine. It's just...him!
Don't mistake me! It's just not my male characters that curse. If it fits the character so be it.
IN RL it doesn't make me uncomfortable at all when people curse around me. Although sometimes I think some people curse entirely too much for NO reason at all but meh! Opinions are like butt holes...you know the rest. And it's not like I haven't been around cursing pretty much my whole life. I grew up military, lived in Newark NJ(yeah, think Jersey Shore the black version) and I work at a police department. Yeah, they really do curse like that! At least at the PD I work at.
Even if you Sim storytelling aren't your characters built BEYOND the Sims? Aren't they supposed to protray real people as if you weren't using them to TELL the story but to illustrate it? And if you write without the Sims how do you feel about it?
Whoa for completely long, rambley post!:P
So, everyone on my flist knows that I don't curse yeah? If you didn't you do now!:P Anyways, at work today an officer came in and someone said something down the hall and he said STFU. But he it made it sound something like: stew-fo and I was like what the crap? So I turned around and asked him what he just said. He told me it was an acronym and- I cut him off there because I knew what he meant then. And, of course, he asked me what it meant. So I told him that I didn't curse but I knew what it meant. It's usually not a big deal about me not cursing. All the girls in the front now I don't. He sat down and started pestering me with questions.
Is it a religious thing?
Is it how you were raised?
Do you think people that curse are bad people?
What...the...crap!!!?
I told him no to all of the above and that I just felt that I sounded stupid cursing. Not ignorant stupid just like the words don't come out sounding right from my mouth. I told him that I think some people can make it sound...well not cool but how I THINK it should sound. LMAO! You have to understand I have a rather high pitched voice and everyone still thinks I'm about 18 even though I'm 27. I'm not complaining about that!
Now, I know people that read my stories and/or don't really talk to me aside from that aspect, probably thought that I cursed like a sailor. Nope! But when I'm writing a character I actually hear their voice in my head! I don't know if that's common place or not but it's not my voice so I think they sound completely different saying something that I wouldn't! Take, for example, Caine from Lycan Tales who everyone knows can't talk without cursing. Something happens that has him completely and utterly confused. Would he say:
"What the crap?"<~~which is what I say ALL the time!
or
"What the FUCK man?"<~~~Totally Caine. It's just...him!
Don't mistake me! It's just not my male characters that curse. If it fits the character so be it.
IN RL it doesn't make me uncomfortable at all when people curse around me. Although sometimes I think some people curse entirely too much for NO reason at all but meh! Opinions are like butt holes...you know the rest. And it's not like I haven't been around cursing pretty much my whole life. I grew up military, lived in Newark NJ(yeah, think Jersey Shore the black version) and I work at a police department. Yeah, they really do curse like that! At least at the PD I work at.
Even if you Sim storytelling aren't your characters built BEYOND the Sims? Aren't they supposed to protray real people as if you weren't using them to TELL the story but to illustrate it? And if you write without the Sims how do you feel about it?
Whoa for completely long, rambley post!:P
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Date: 2010-01-20 08:01 pm (UTC)Your dad is like me! And it takes ALOT to get me upset! LOL! Testing the waters so to speak huh? That's funny! And very polite!:P
DUDE!!! We have to kill some zombies soon! I'm going to night shift when I get back from my sisters so maybe then yeah? Seriously!
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Date: 2010-01-20 08:19 pm (UTC)"Hey Stew-Fo, how goes it?"
"Whatcha doin for the weekend, Stew-Fo?"
Oh my God, if my father curses the shite is about to hit the fan. He gets all red and grabs his head, it's scary. My brother doesn't realize the first time he says a curse word is the time he needs to back down. I've learned that when the bad words start just agree and talk in a soft voice.
DUDE!!!! I KNOW! Message me on LJ when you get time, I start classes Feb 1st and I'm a girlscout co-leader on Thursdays from 6 to 9 so we gotta do it soon :D :D :D [lol do it]