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Here is a detailed explanation, hopefully, this will help. Four or five years ago, I was listing to NPR / Fresh Air and the topic I believe was about speech pa
by chad_strategic 5y ago
Here is a detailed explanation, hopefully, this will help.
Four or five years ago, I was listing to NPR / Fresh Air and the topic I believe was about speech patterns. (I can’t find the episodes, please let me know if you have any luck.) They used President George W. Bush as an example. He had a tendency to use the word “awesome” with a high frequency. If he saw the Pope, he would describe it as awesome, if he went to a Nascar race, he would describe it as awesome. I honestly can’t remember, but something triggered me and I said to myself that I choose better words to describe events and or circumstances. (This is not a political commentary.)
Basically, I channeled myself to not use swear words. I don’t type swear words on the internet and do my best not to say them in public. I allow myself 10 swear words a year and generally only swear about 5 times a year. I swear to myself sometimes, but I don’t think that counts? It also helps cause my son was born, so he is not growing up in hearing me swear.
Generally, I feel that I can use better adjectives and adverbs to describe something to a person than falling back on a swear word. I also find that when I’m reading books, my vocabulary increases a little bit for the better. When I put a book down, my language seems to deteriorate just a little bit. At the end of the day great leaders, presidents, CEO are great communicators, and swearing in public isn’t a method they use to communicate.