Inoffensive Alternatives to Common Swear Words

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I'm Justin, welcome to another episode of RealLIfe TV. Today, I'm going to teach you

about alternative ways to swear in English, so stay tuned.

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Ok, so, the first way that we actually use it, to write, is this symbol here. This symbol

represents, when we say the words *bleep*, there's a bleep. That's bleep.

So, then, we have the word fuck, which is also called the F word. So, the way we use

this, if you get upset, and you have to yell "fuck!" you might say fudge, you might say

frick, and, if you use this as an adverb, for example "I'm fucking tired," you might

say, like, "I'm fricking tired," "I'm freaking tired," "I'm effing tired," "I'm flippingtired."

And then, the final way that we use this is when we say, you might say, WTF, which you

see on the internet all the time, that's "what the fuck," you might say "what the bleep."

The next swear word that we are going to teach an alternative for is the word shit. So, you

don't have to say shit, you can say shoot, you can say shiznit, these are way less offensive.

The next word is hell. We use the word heck, instead of hell. So, for example, instead

of saying, like, hell yeah, you can say heck yeah. And, instead of saying "what the hell,"

you can say "what the heck."

The next word is ass. Ass is a little bit offensive, but you don't have to use it. You

can say arse, you can say butt, you can say bum.

The next curse word that we often use is damn. Damn! Like, that's damn good. You can actually

say darn. You can say dang, you can say doggone. The next word is bitch. So, you can use a

couple of alternatives to bitch. First of all, it's more of a gangster term, coined

by Dr. Dre. This is not something you want to use in a normal situation, because, it's

something you want to play with, actually, but, biatch. Next one, you might say "son

of a bitch," is the bad word, but you can say "son of a gun," that's not offensive at all.

all.

Ok, now moving on to the religious swear words. So, God is actually not very good to use as

a swear word. You don't want to use this as, like, an exclamation. So, you might say gosh.

Gosh, instead of God. My gosh! Or my goodness.

And then, sometimes people say, like, Jesus, when they're really frustrated about something,

or they're amazed by something, but you can say geez.

And then, the final one, some people say holy shit. So, holy is obviously something that's

very, like, religious, very sacred. So, you can say holy cow.

So, that does it for today, alternatives to swear words. Remember, be careful using these,

play around with them, pay attention in the media, I really, really recommend caution

with these, because it's still much more complicated than just using these words.

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