stop swearing

i’m doing fairly well on this, i probably slip up once or twice a day. that’s too much for me though. i’m including the phrase “oh my god” to the swear terms list because i realize how unintelligent i sound saying it. i just need a good substitute! maybe i’ll make up my own swear words like the lovely ruby?

I stopped swearing very frequently, towards the end of last year. But now, the more I try to curb it, the more it slips out! I adore words and want to be able to instantly call upon the mot juste without resorting to swear words. Why is this so engrained?

I guess it’s especially hard because I don’t want to compromise. Making visceral (?) noises (e.g. “Gah!”) is primitive, and using phonetically similar euphemisms (?) (e.g. “Mothertrucker!”) is irritatingly pointless (nobody’s fooled).

I’ve been saying “Curses!” a little bit.
“A plague on your house!” doesn’t work as well.

Lately this goal is becoming harder and harder.. Recently my mother took my grandmothers dog, and it DOES NOT stop barking. It’s not even slightly amusing waking up at 6AM every morning IN THE SUMMER to a dog barking.

Lately I have been swearing loads, I swear without even noticing i just naturally swear to anyone when i’m saying something.
So… I’ll try and swear less…

Well the thing is that it is actually very rude to swear around people, and its not fair to expose people to language like that. And also it just makes you sound really stupid, so maybe a should learn some new words that are much more intelligent. I used to live with my grandmother where swearing was completely out of bounds, but since im living on my own and going to college its gotten out of controll.

i think im just going to have to think before i say things more, soon it will hopefully become second nature…

Becasue it doesn’t reflect well on me.

It brings me down to the level of the person/thing I whinging about.

I wrote that 50 times the other day! I think it helped. if I catch myself swearing too many times again I will have to write more :) This seems to work more than anything else i tried.

I swear a lot, so much that my teachers are used to it. Its funny though because when I meet new people and I happen to accidentally let out a string of swear words, they stare at me and say for a innocent looking person I swear like a sailor.

I’ve improved greatly :)
It seems a bad word only slips out when im angry now :(

For Lent, I spontaneously decided this would be my goal. I’ve done pretty well. The only slips I’ve had are those moments of dropping, spilling or breaking things that are a little more crucial than usual, and then it’s usually under my breath. Otherwise Shoot, Flippin’ Heck, Bum and Basket have been my new friends. Perhaps I will also introduce Cockadoodledo into my lexicon. The better the substitutes available, the more likely I’ll be to use those. Really what comparison is there between a swearword and a magnificent specimen such as the non-word Bummocks?