It rarely bothers me.
Mostly I see it as the growing up process - when you're 12, it's a big part of pushing boundaries, and learning what you can get away with. If you become a squaddie that remains with you for life and becomes part of your every day linguistic intercourse (yes I did just say that).
There are very few words that are proscribed IMO. Maybe the odd word beginning with the third letter of the aphabet... but most other stuff is fair game and doesn't bother me.
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If I really want to swear (like tonight when the ambush didn't want to spawn properly and I will have to do that awful huge map filled with cots again until it does as i cant drop that mission ever), words are not enough to express my feelings. So why bother? A number of random keyboard hits express my frustration better then any words will ever do.
Sometimes you do forget this is just a game you play for fun.
Ahh, swearing, so many views, so personal. I was talking with a friend about this today as we decided as New Zealanders we swear more than the English do. Or at least find it less offensive.
I'm not sure I can have a conversation with my friends without swearing. It's not gratuitious, it's just some of the best adjectives are swearwords. They are so very versitile.
In game, I tend to reserve swearing for those F*** Me! occasions. If I'm in a team of friends I may swear a little more, but I tend not to swear when typing.
I'll only swear for a couple of reasons:
1. When I'm livid, and my brain has stopped functioning past the most primal level.
2. For comedic effect: i.e. anyone who knows me, knows I hate to swear, and whenever I do, I regret it later (yes, this applies to 1) - so if I feel like making an impact amongst my friends-who-like-to-swear, I will blurt out something atrocious (though never the word Scarlet Shocker mentioned).
I will then feel terribly ashamed.
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Ahh, swearing, so many views, so personal. I was talking with a friend about this today as we decided as New Zealanders we swear more than the English do. Or at least find it less offensive.
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heh, let's compare notes next time the Black Caps are over and Vettori fumbles a catch 
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I like to use more old-fashioned swearwords.
Like 'Blaggard!'. Or 'Filthy cur!'.
Really gets a team going :3
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I think there is a common held misconception that those who swear do so because they don't have the intelligence to use any other phraseology.
I swear in game. I tend not to in teams where I don't know people and I am mostly polite in teams where I do. It's just that occasionally you need a really well placed c**k!
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And the funny thing is, Khorak, that someone who expresses themself as eloquently as you just did obviously doesn't need to pepper their conversation with Acute Anglo-Saxon.
That's a compliment, by the way, not a dig. It may also be a comment on our desensitised society, but I have a headache and I'm not sure. 
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As far as I'm concerned, I have a need to tell someone he/she a coprophage who prefers incestual intimacy, and I can't be buttocked to write out the whole phallic lot in complete self-fellating detail.
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It's just that occasionally you need a really well placed c**k!
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Some people more than others, I feel
I think there's a difference between using the f word almost like punctuation and saving it up for when you're really upset.
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i do in occasianonal outburssts but i try not to.
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It's just that occasionally you need a really well placed c**k!
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Some people more than others, I feel
I think there's a difference between using the f word almost like punctuation and saving it up for when you're really upset.
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yes, I think you're right. I don't tend to use the F word. I like my swearing to be mildly comic so I try and come up with things that are somewhat left-field.
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Ahh, swearing, so many views, so personal. I was talking with a friend about this today as we decided as New Zealanders we swear more than the English do. Or at least find it less offensive.
I'm not sure I can have a conversation with my friends without swearing. It's not gratuitious, it's just some of the best adjectives are swearwords. They are so very versitile.
In game, I tend to reserve swearing for those F*** Me! occasions. If I'm in a team of friends I may swear a little more, but I tend not to swear when typing.
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I have a new zealand friend. A builder no less. He is pretty polite actually. We do live in the north of england though.
What is going on with these constant threads about profanity? Is there really that much happening in the game? I play far too much CoX and have never noticed any huge problems with profanity. Its a 16+ game and there is enough protection in game for people who prefer not to see profanity. Filter, ignore, leave/kick etc..
Why are people so quick to be offended by such irrelevances? Of course no one "needs" to swear. We dont "need" to play CoX.
What people do "need" is to have fun. Profanities are a great way to make all sorts of things a little more exciting.
Maybe start the anti profanity crusades in places where people dont have swear-filters or the option to /ignore?
Next time I am in my local pub I could start asking people to refrain from profanities in my earshot? Or start dropping comments that people only swear because they have a limited vocabulary or low intelligence?
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What is going on with these constant threads about profanity?
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Um, has there been another one in the last 6 months? Another two? 
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I like to use more old-fashioned swearwords.
Like 'Blaggard!'. Or 'Filthy cur!'.
Really gets a team going :3
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I used to call people "Charlies" a lot, thanks to The Goon Show.
Then my dad explained what it meant. Oops. 
I used to work in radio, where swearing at any time is a big no no .
One of the presenters slipped up, and said the F word (luckily on a pre-recorded show) and the producer pulled him up on it.
He said that for him it was a normal mode of speech and that where he's from no one thinks twice about using it in that context, but agreed to apologise for it after the track finished, in order to save having to redo the entire piece.
his "apology" ran something along the lines of:
"It's been pointed out to me that i accidently said [censored] in the previous segment of the show. I use the word [censored] in everyday language more than i should, and it is sometimes [censored] hard to remember not to use it. I apologise to anyone offended by the [censored], and i wont [censored] do it again."
That wasn't the version that finally got aired, but it had us in hysterics in the studio 
I personally have a somewhat varied vocabulary, but still make liberal use of profanity. In my dialect, its used as a form of prefix similar to an exclamation mark. something that is very good becomes "[censored] awesome!".
Of course this is also a dialect where a term for a love child, or a very offensive word for ladybits are used as terms of endearment.
Unless a profanity is directed at someone, theres little to be offended by, and by fluffing your feathers and trying to take the moral high ground because some oik has used a profanity is more likely to proove offensive, especialy if the person doing so IS a person with a short vocabulary or poor education.
If someone says something you feel is inapropriate language, just ask them politely not to use it. Unless they ARE doing it to purposfully be offensive, they'll try not to.
What Lunk said.
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Hardly anyone speaks real l33t anymore, tis a dying art.
Mostly text speak now which always annoys me.
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Well whatever you call it, I find it damn annoying that people dont type whole words. It's not impossible by any means. Over the last 2 years I cant really remember a moment I wouldn't have had time to type complete sentences with *gasp* words instead of random (ok, ok, I know they're not random) letters. Combat situations included.
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I don't tend to overally swear in real life or on CoX, as a librarian I don't do it at work (much) unless I do something wrong and then I utter something to myself under my breath. On CoX I tend to do the same, being a polite chap I don't tend to direct swearing at people so no swearing isn't really needed but people do it, sometimes it can e funny other times it can just be annoying when someone uses the f word in every sentence.
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It's the Internet after all so I'm not actually expecting even adequate punctuation or grammar most of the time. If I expected everyone to be able to use commas, full stops and paragraphs like they've been taught to at school, people would call me crazy!
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Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
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Funny thing happened today.
Two people left the group I had just joined because people started to swear (I did not partake in the swearing part btw). Especially when they tried to avoid the profanity filter.
So apparently, some people do mind. I wonder what such people are doing playing a game where you 'arrest' people by shooting them full of holes though.
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I don't swear in-game (for me it's always been something I say without really thinking and typing just doesn't work like that) but it doesn't bother me. People trying to bypass the filters though does annoy me. There's a difference between "speaking the way I always do" and deliberately trying to ram it down other peoples throats.
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Funny thing happened today.
Two people left the group I had just joined because people started to swear (I did not partake in the swearing part btw). Especially when they tried to avoid the profanity filter.
So apparently, some people do mind. I wonder what such people are doing playing a game where you 'arrest' people by shooting them full of holes though.
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I don't swear in-game (for me it's always been something I say without really thinking and typing just doesn't work like that) but it doesn't bother me. People trying to bypass the filters though does annoy me. There's a difference between "speaking the way I always do" and deliberately trying to ram it down other peoples throats.
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True, that is childish behavior and of course a bit annoying. But is it a reason to quit a team for? Assuming that it don't continue for a longer period.
Swearing is an impulse thing for me so although my monitor and mouse get some abuse, I don't type it out. By the time I've typed anything the red mist has cleared
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Just like to pose a question altho we do have a filter to stop it,is there any real need for people to use bad language in game? your thoughts on this.
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Just tell them to **** off.
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