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TAYLER SHAW Community Editor tshaw@coloradocommunitymedia.com or not. e torrent of “F” bombs and other awful expletives were screamed at one another. It wasn’t just the words that caught my attention, it was the intensity of their words and body language at such a young age. words

It may be a good time to rethink what swear words or curse words really qualify as such anymore. I mean we hear them with such frequency that they are almost indiscernible from the other regular words we seem to use so often. I almost feel like when someone tells me to go “F” myself, they are really just saying, “Hello, how are you?” Not only are we hearing them all the time, but we are also hearing them from almost everyone and from people of all ages including very young children.

Not being a prude, I get it, I just think it may be time to change it up a bit. I was walking past four children playing on a beach. ey appeared to be playing a game called running the bases, and they could not have been more than 10 years old. One of the boys and one of the girls got into an argument about whether they were safe on base

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Where did they learn that from? Maybe it’s watching news reels and videos of passengers losing their minds and yelling at each other, threatening to `F” word kill each other or beat the “S” word out of each other. Maybe it’s from older siblings or cousins, parents or grandparents, or next-door neighbors. It is still happening in the corporate world too. For some, maybe it seems like it helps them to underscore a point more e ectively or seem stronger in a heated debate.

Like I said, it’s everywhere with unabashed frequency and malicious intent. I wish we could ignore them and come up with new ones, but the truth is that nasty and troubling words have been around forever, so we will never change those. But maybe we can change our own use of them and our

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