Now you have to understand that I did this very deliberately. I saw no need to repeat the word or to have anyone think the word. But Jason, being the over-zealous analyticalist that he is, immediately questioned what kind of word could be substituted for "blankety blank blank." I tried reasoning with him, telling him that it didn't matter, that the point was that there was a swear word, that I didn't see a reason for him to repeat the swear word in his mind...But, alas, he was stuck on the fact that I used a three-worded substitute for a one-worded swear word. It was irrational. I told him that my reasoning was completely rational--you still get the idea that it's a swear word and yet you don't think the specific word and muddy your mind.
So, of course, we have to hash over our argument at the next McKellar family function. And from this hashing Travis and Crystal claim that when someone says "The S word" instead of a swear word, they do not actually think the swear word. I told them they are both full of it. If you reiterated to me any common, well-known, substitute for a swear word, knowing that the substitute was really the swear word, I would automatically think the swear word. And I will argue that everyone else will too. Travis and Crystal say that they only think what was actually said and make no substitute in their mind.
So, let me get this straight. If I said to you, "Someone called me the "B" word today." You would just think, in your mind, "the "B" word." You wouldn't actually think the real word? They said yes, they don't think the swear word.
I still say they are full of crap. It's almost impossible to NOT think the given word. But, I have been wrong...this one time. So I thought I would ask my adoring readers. What do you think?
6 comments:
big eye roll from me :) i just don't think it. it's not my fault that my brain works that way.....now if you asked me what the "s word" was...i would probably think it...see i just thought it. but if you just said he said the "s word" i don't think it.
What the H-word?
I totally think what the real word is.
And bleeping the word doesn't help either. I still think it.
I must be naughty.
I totally think the word. There might be a few out there that wouldn't think the word but I would guess a good 75 percent or more actually think the word. I am with JD :)
Hubby-irrational, again♥ I don't just think one word, I think a list of them. They all might not be swear words. I even think s***, you know s with 3 little ***'s and can see that it my mind's eye. I'm creative like that...and a quick thinker!
Ha! Blankety blank blank is a perfectly respectable swear word replacement. Doesn't matter if the original word was a word or phrase. Although, it can, not always, but can, make me delve into the list of swear words I know to see what would fit best in that situation.
I have been known to use "blankety blank beep beep" in my own speech as a swear word replacement though. You know, drop something on your food and as you are hopping around yell, "Gosh darn it! Blankety blank beep beep thing!"
I should be a better person.
Funny post. I won't say what I think because I must not be so pure.
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