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You are allowed to swear here on the internet, but if you truly don't want to say fuck-ups then just don't say it. Or change it to from fuck-ups to foul-ups, mess ups, or something.
See, I'm petty, so self censoring just makes me not want to agree with you.
However, fucks sake, I do agree with you...but begrudgingly. FUCK UPS.
Your one self censorship had led to me writing fuck-ups four times.
I use f***up instead of the alternatives when I want to say fuckup, but I don't like reading the word and I don't want to force it on others. It has nothing to do with censorship. Everyone knows what I'm referring to. Some people just don't like swear words, they're often from academic backgrounds.
It literally is self-censorship though.
This is confusing to me, which I understand is a me problem not a you problem, I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t use a different word when you say you don’t like reading the word. Saying he’s incompetent, careless, reckless, irresponsible; I don’t know what word would make the most sense but I feel like using a curse word is generally a crutch anyway. I still use them but if I didn’t like reading them I wouldn’t use the crutch. I expect academics have a preference against it because they have a more broad range of conversational words they choose from more so than finding it offensive. I have a really hard time believing an educated adult finds the word fuck offensive. I would believe people find it lazy or juvenile and would make them less likely to engage and biases their opinion of who they are speaking with, even if unintentionally, but self censoring does nothing to change that.
Oh fuck it's contagious.
It's fucking spreading!
The fuckupalypse!