“Vulgarized Filipino Identity: Development of Filipino Profanity”

The use of profanity has increased in the past couple of decades. According to Kristin Jay, a psychologist at Marist College who has collected data on public swearing, this is partly because, “…The media we used to consume were much more sanitized, and we had fewer things to choose from and less control over what we exposed ourselves to.” In addition to profanity being more common, there is also decrease in the average age that children learn swear words—in fact, according to Timothy Jay, a psychology professor at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, most children have

Besides literal uses for cuss words (as verbs), over two-thirds of all swearing is linked in expressing some kind of emotional connotation. These help with expressing the speaker’s anger, frustration, and surprise (“son of a bitch”, “f*ck me!”, “holy shit!”) which are done in emotional outbursts of these single words, also known as epithets. In addition profanity has a direct connection with emotional response in that when one utters one of these “worser words” it helps increase heart rate and work as an analgesic, showing how it can help manage emotional pain as it has a direct connection. One such emotional connection could be noted in the use of “FUBAR” (F*ucked up beyond all recognition) in the movie Saving Private Ryan to help the convey the soldiers emotions in how sick of they were of the war. Commonly physical fights take place to help express emotional pain or anger, these are normally avoided by voicing this anger through these taboo words. For example one can use name calling (bitch, asshole), or curse in the form of a put down (eat shit and die) all spur emotional responses and can help avoid physical confrontations by giving a voice to inner feelings. This is commonly seen in rap songs where many cuss words are used to unveil inner feelings. Such the rap group NWA used

For the purpose of this study, the researcher intends to use a cross-sectional research design where all the data will be collected at the same time. The distribution of the research questionnaires will take place over a time period of two weeks where the main data will be collected from the respondents.

Participant will understand that participation is voluntary and that they are free to withdraw or decline to participate in this exercise, however, it is also important for the researcher to ensure that interviewees to have the confidence to articulate their feelings (Oliver 2003). At the beginning of the interview, the researcher will first explain to the teacher participant about the context of the interview; its purpose and estimated duration of the research. They have the right to ask for clarification at any point of the exercise and inform the researcher if they feel uncomfortable about any procedure in the process of the

Based off the book, “What the F” by Benjamin K. Bergen; he shows us only a minor part of the huge role that profanity takes effect in humanity’s day to day life; our language and our society's culture are all affected by the well-worn use of profanity. This can vary from racial slurring, to malapropos and indecorous sexual referencing and even to, blunt classifications

After, Kourtney Friar evaluates her daily habits and she finds that she uses an excessive amount of profanity. Profanities also known as swear words, cuss words, bad words, cursing, taboo etc. Profanity can be a word, expression, gesture, or other social behavior which is socially constructed or interpreted as insulting, rude or bad-mannered, or violating or showing disrespect toward an object of religious veneration. Profanity affected an individual usually in childhood, along with many other social issues. As children, people are punished by parents when they use profanity, and at that stage most learned that certain phrases must be avoided. When people grow older and mature, we learn the difficult social features and challenges that are faced cause people to use profanity.

The information is presented in a direct manner, lacking unnecessary information, and written in a style which is easy for a range of readers to understand. They provide a thorough description of the development of the instrument, the norm population used, and an example of the survey, thus enabling the study to be replicated. A table of the frequencies and percentages of respondents’

The participants were asked to complete a survey. The first step was for the participants to read and understand the information regarding the rules of the survey before they began. After reading and complying with the rules, the participants had a choice to continue with the survey or opt out. The volunteers, were then presented with the newly created measure of fifteen questions regarding their level of anger. Following that were two other measures rating their level of aggression. All the questions were presented for each measure at a time. The participants needed to complete a measure before going to the next one. When the participants completed the final measure, the survey asked the participants to respond to two questions with a short response. When they finished, participants were asked to identify their demographics by answering the demographics questions. A total of 64 questions (including the three measures, two short response and demographics) were given to the participants taking roughly ten minutes to complete. The participants completed the survey online at their own pace without any supervision.

Interviews can provide much more information and detail as the interviewer can spend far longer with the person and ask them questions based on their responses.

vulgar words and imagery because they think that they can not express their pain without

Also, swear words can be used in many ways. Curse words are used in situations of frustration, humor, social situations, anger, and rudeness. Swear words can be used in storytelling to make people laugh or in rude situations to upset people (psychcentral.com). Melissa Mohr, medieval literature expert, says, “Cuss words are not used by people with lazy minds.” Based on her studies she believes that curse words are used in a strategic manner when used in an angry situation. Curse words have a strong meaning that are used to hurt others (time.com). The average person uses 0.3% to 0.7% of their spoken words to say a swear word. Though less than one percent may not seem like a lot, people use descriptive words about 0.7% as well (psychcentral.com). People in Ohio are most likely to say a curse word in a rude way, while people from Washington are least likely to use curse words (Stevens, Why Are Bad Words

In today’s society children use all sorts of words. A majority of those words are swear words and parents say they are bad but they use them and most of the time they say fuck to everything. In “The Etymology of the Top 7 Curse Words”, Taylor Dennis explains the f-word has gotten creative and what it originally meant. “In modern speech and writing, the word fuck is almost as offensive as you can get. (...) but it does keep this word contained to HBO dramas about medieval warfare and albums labeled "Explicit." The word fuck can be used in a number of colorful ways, but its definition comes down to the act of sexual intercourse.” (Taylor Dennis) When someone says to fuck off, they are saying that in a more colorful way than intended. When someone says to go fuck yourself, make a comment back and say that you have someone to do that for you because it does literally mean to have sex. Fuck is just a word that is abused and when someone wants to use it in a movie, song or in video games, they have to rate the movie R if they say “Fuck” more than 3 times, an album has to be labeled “Explicit” when it’s in any of the songs, and the video games have to be rated, with at least 1 f-bomb, is T for Teen or M for Mature, which has more than 1

Swear words can derive from these many social taboos. Many of today’s swear words come from the sexual taboos. In order to make the swear words fit in society’s language, the swear words must be humorous, easy to understand, and mature enough for the audience. Swearing is known to have an emotional response to the human body. Babbel mentions that there have been

the researchers analyzed their data and how they decided to analyze it in a certain way based on

Upon learning this information, one would make the assumption that profanity is another common attribute to our daily lives, such as brushing our teeth. But what is profane language? Webster's dictionary defines it as being "the condition or quality of being profane - abusive, vulgar, or irreverent - and the use of such language." However, although society is being exposed to this "coarse" language repeatedly, many are still being penalized for using it in