The usual colloquial language may be unacceptable, just people rarely think about it. As a result, adults can only wonder where the children learn “bad words” and why they are so attractive. What is foul language, why is it spreading so quickly, and how to deal with it?
Definition of a term according to dictionaries
The academic definition can be formulated as follows: profanity is speech in which there are obscene obscene words. At the same time, not only obscene vocabulary is called bad , but also rude formulations designed to insult and offend the interlocutor.
Sly attempts to separate the mat from the "permitted" curses are actually designed to blur the line between the acceptable and unacceptable vocabulary. What is profanity really? In a broad sense, this can be a deliberately offensive speech, even if it does not contain a single swear word. More often rude expressions are conditionally divided according to the degree of admissibility, and on the basis of this, a subjective decision is made: to reproach the speaker or consider that he is kept in a precarious framework of decency.
What is profanity from a teenager’s point of view?
Many regretfully admit that it is children from a certain age who willingly humiliate their speech with abuse. Why is this happening? A rebellious teenager falls into the network of the simple principle of "rebellion for the sake of rebellion." What should be a tool to achieve a goal is taken for the goal itself, emphasis is shifted. If you ask a teenager why he swears so eagerly, most likely, the answer will be an indistinct explanation in the style of "everyone ran - and I ran."
If the topic “Foul language is bad” is raised before adolescents, then he once again receives confirmation that adults do not understand anything. The desire to teach good at all costs leads adults to the exact opposite result. We have to admit that the swearing vocabulary is present in everyday life, and in such quantities that a person who does not swear looks strange and causes suspicion.
Teacher as a teacher
At school, the educational function should be taken over by the class teacher. Of course, this does not mean that other teachers remain on the sidelines - this is teamwork. What can a teacher do to overcome profanity that flourishes among students? A class hour devoted to this problem can also be spent on the basis of methodological literature. However, work on a given topic is not limited to one lecture on the topic “Children, swearing is not good!”. Only systematic work will help, and a personal example here is of great importance.
Conversation Standards
Generally accepted communication standards suggest that swear words are inappropriate. At the same time, not only the classic mate falls into the category of swearing, but also the vulgar names of the genitals, the secretions of the human body, the names of some animals, birds, trees, objects. If you analyze the swearing vocabulary, then you can only marvel at its diversity. For example, there is nothing flawed or embarrassing for a chicken in a bird, but if you call a chicken a woman, specifying that the bird is wet, it is unlikely that she will take this as a compliment.
A peculiar profanity virus spreads very quickly. Swearing is picked up even by adults, children hear from a dozen to a hundred swear words every day. No lectures about the flawedness of this style of communication work, because in this case the theory is not confirmed by practice. Herd instinct reliably holds back those who are trying to stop the flow of abuse. Nevertheless, one can give reasonably good reasons against profanity.
The power of words
During the study, scientists have confirmed that sounds have an energetic nature that affects others. It has been confirmed that bell ringing is able to reduce the number of pathogens, and classical music included in a glass of water improves its structure.
Inconsistent combinations distort this structure. If for some time scolding water, then when it freezes, it produces flawed compositions. Snowflakes are crippled, they lack harmonious symmetry. What is foul language from an energy perspective? This is a destructive message into space, designed to carry evil literally at the molecular level.
The use of obscene vocabulary in everyday life
The abundance of abuse around us sometimes rolls over. Previously, in fiction, obscene vocabulary was put into the mouths of negative heroes to emphasize their bad qualities, but now it suddenly turns out to be a kind of symbol of “coolness”. The very problem of profanity is the substitution of concepts. The bad is declared good, or at least acceptable, acceptable. Parents do not see anything special in that they insult their children, and after that they demand cultural speech from them, and these are mutually exclusive phenomena.
How to instill a culture of speech in children?
Lectures, educational conversations and outright intimidation, when a child is punished for a released curse, and often with abuse by a punishing adult, only partially works. Rather, they do not work as educators hope. Children simply do not explain what foul language really is. The presentation of abuse as an integral part of the vocabulary of “cool people” overwhelms the surrounding reality.
It is worth remembering a simple truth: children learn by observing adults. If others do not swear, then the children will not, simply because they will not see an example that they want to follow. Of course, a child can pick up the habit of cursing from the outside, but even here parents and carers should be wise. Why are teens rude? "To show them all." What exactly to show and why - at least one teenager is unlikely to be able to answer this question. They want to embarrass the interlocutor, to bring him out of balance. If this does not work, then the unusable tool will soon be forgotten, so you should not raise a cry because the child cursed. Calm surprise can work much more efficiently.
What can be said in defense of swearing?
It cannot be said that profanity is unambiguously condemned by all sane people. There is an opinion according to which swearing helps to somewhat reduce the emotional intensity, to let off steam. This point of view was brilliantly formulated by Herbert Wells in the story “Code of Curses”. It describes a person who collects and systematizes all kinds of abuse. Professor Gnilstok, an enthusiast in his field, even at the risk of his own health and life, hired a servant in Calcutta and drove him out without paying a salary. And all this is solely for the sake of writing, fumbling with happiness, to write down the swearing that an angry Bengali watered his vile employer for several hours in a row.
Wells called swearing "emotional gag", that is, a tool that helps to expel the poison out and survive. Emotional expressive swear words are just air shocks. A person who swore heartily is less likely to hit the other person, and someone who is forced to endure and restrain himself may well kill. Of course, the ingenious writer laughed at the situation with profanity in his story, but thoughtful readers will surely find food for thought in it.