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The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building," or "besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings". As a result, "profane" and "profanity" has therefore come to describe a word, expression, gesture, or other social behavior which is socially constructed or interpreted as insulting, rudeness, vulgarism, desecrating, or showing disrespect.[1] Other words commonly used to describe profane language or its use include cuss, curse, pejorative language, swearing, expletive, oath, bad word, dirty word, strong language, irreverent language, obscenity language, choice words, blasphemy language, foul language, and bad or adult language. In many cultures it is less profane[citation needed] for an adult to curse than it is for a child, who may be reprimanded for cursing. Tape-recorded conversations find that roughly 80–90 spoken words each day--0.5% to 0.7% of all words--are swear words with people varying from between 0% to 3.4%. In comparison first person plural pronouns (we, us, our) make up 1% of spoken words.[2]
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1. Listening to Jim
November 19, 2009
Listening to Jim
JIM WAS AN OLD WAR VETERAN and liked his profanity.
How you can Listen
Born into a middle class family with too many children, Jim grew into a sour, salty old man.
When I was fourteen, Jim hired me to do some work at his steel yard. No self-respecting steelworker would be seen doing the work I was asked to. I was known as “kid”. “Kid! Scrub the #&%@ washroom!” “Kid! Make sure the %* trucks are unloaded!”
My favourite job was to load a thousand gallons of water onto Jim’s truck and then drain it down a hole in Jim’s front yard whenever his well ran dr... (read more)
Author: Martin Van zyl
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2. ezine a good internet logistic
September 21, 2009
Submit your articles to AMAZINES.COM is perfect, remember to make sure you use articles correctly not for profanity. The factor is this links and keywords play the part but the body of the article is paramount! give it a go it will get results!">The development of ezines have changed certainly in the early days, the purpose was too comunicate but as research and cross referencing has moved on the internet as brought the ezine even further too business areas. When you develop a website use ezine, the is perfect, remember to make sure you use articles correctly not for profanity. ... (read more)
Author: foggy fogmeister
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3. Forum Participation - How to Drive Long Term Traffic to Your Niche Site
September 19, 2008
Part 2 of Traffic Project! (not an affiliate program) is a continuation of Part 1 to leverage on Forum Participation to generate long term traffic to your site.
How To Search For Relevant Forums. Do a Google search for your related niche forums to best leverage your expertise. To find your niche forums, key in the following line into your google search box and press enter. “allintitle: dog training filetype:html forum”
How To Exude Forum Etiquette & Win Hearts. Never use profanity and foul language in Forums. Never be intrusive or offensive with words. Respect your fellow forume... (read more)
Author: Yoshiko Choy
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4. Profanity From The Pulpit
September 02, 2008
The problem of pastor worship in the United States is growing out of control to the point of parishioners accepting profanity from the pulpit.
A young Christian woman, during a conversation with another Christian, proudly spoke of how her pastor boldly made use of the phrase "hell no" in her speech and in the deliverance of her sermons. She proceeded to offer the explanation that her and the rest of the church's congregation had received as justification for the use of "hell no" without shame.
The pastor cleverly concocted a logic that sounds good on the surface but that is in shar... (read more)
Author: Hannah Henderson
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5. Monitor Computer Programs
August 10, 2008
If multiple individuals use your computer, such as your family members or business employees, you may want to monitor the usage. Or, if you have staff members with their own laptops or desktops, knowing what's on that computer and what it's being used for can help protect your information or that of your company and your privacy.
It can also help you to ascertain what family members and employees are really doing when spending time offline or online. Perhaps you are concerned about the surfing habits of your teenager with respect to profanity, pornography or illegal behavior. Maybe you w... (read more)
Author: Qualrock .....
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6. Google Adsense -Get Approved
June 02, 2008
Why Do I Have to Get Approved for the Google Adsense Program
It's not really about you. Google has standards to which they adhere and there are certain sites that they don't want their advertiser's ads on. Check the Program Policies for an exhaustive list of what kind of content sites are not acceptable. For the most part, they do not allow ads to be placed on any site that has excessive profanity. This is probably the hardest one to decipher as the word "excessive" could mean one thing to a publisher and another thing altogether to the Google Adsense program. To be on the safe side, if ... (read more)
Author: Maya Sharma
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7. Why Dish Network Appeals to Parents
December 29, 2007
When you get a new television provider and you have a family with young children the new television service is not just for you but your children as well. So, naturally you want a satellite television provider that understands this and does not have excessive adult channels or no way to filter out the channels with explicit content. With little children present in the home you should not have to be bothered by the fact that they could pick up the remote and turn on the television to find profanity, sexual content, drug use, or even nudity. In today’s society there are so many things that are n... (read more)
Author: David Johnson
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8. DirecTV Beats Cable By Having Parental Controls
August 04, 2007
There are many benefits to having DirecTV over cable. DirecTV is affordable and is able to provide you with a much better quality service than cable can. One of the biggest issues with television, with cable and especially other satellite television providers, is the fact that there are so many shows on today that show drug use or have a lot of sexual content and profanity. With cable there was no way to be 100% sure that your children were viewing kid friendly material. In fact on many cable channel line ups there are adult channels just the next channel over from many children's channels. Ho... (read more)
Author: David Johnson
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9. DirecTV with DVR and TiVo!
July 05, 2007
In today's busy life schedules it can be hard to monitor your children's television shows the entire time they are watching television. It can also be hard to know for sure that all the channels and show aired on your television broadcast is suitable for young children. It seems that within the last 20 years the over seers of what can and can not be air on television have become more and more lax with what can be aired. Television shows have become more vulgar and violent even with the children's shows sneaking in those little profanity words here and there. With all the unsuitable shows fill... (read more)
Author: David Johnson
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10. Top Ten Attitude Developing Do's and Don'ts for Customer Gathering
June 07, 2007
Do avoid negative attitudes in your daily business practice if you want to keep your customers. Don’t be argumentative or confrontational with anyone while working in your business establishment. Always talk to people in a positive manner and avoid speaking negatively to them in front of others. In addition to that, it is bad business practice to use profanity and to be loud and boisterous around your customers. Whenever you get a complaint about one of your employees, wait until the appropriate time to discuss the issue. Do not discuss these matters in front of your customers, as negativ... (read more)
Author: Dr. Mary E. Waters
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11. US Broadcasters Win Indecency Challenge
June 05, 2007
A U.S. appeals court says rules that punish broadcasters for accidental use of profanity in live broadcasts may need to be rewritten.
The appeals court Monday told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reconsider a 2006 indecency rule, which the court called arbitrary and capricious. The judges also said the rules might violate free speech rights.
Fox Broadcasting praised the ruling and said it should be up to viewers to determine which programs are appropriate for them and their families.
The FCC enforced the rule after two U.S. celebrities, Cher and Nicole Richie, used profanity du... (read more)
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12. How Your Computer Mouse Works
April 23, 2007
Since the 80s or 90s—maybe even the 70s if you were a part of the “computer IN crowd”--kids have been playing with them, you’ve been clicking away at them, and your parents and grandparents have been trying to avoid the use of profanity around them!
What is this precious item? It’s a computer mouse and they are the innovative way that we as computer consumers send our computer many of the specific signals that we want our computer to perform.
What is a Computer Mouse? A computer mouse—like most engineering feats seem to be—is about an idea and then a sequence of steps. How does a... (read more)
Author: Marci Crane
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13. Affiliates for Dummys 101
April 02, 2007
I am a commercial affiliate with a relationship with a peer or larger entities. A 24/7 Jazz and Blues Web radio network and Video, station that agrees to carry the Usually, the stations is still responsible for the content (such as profanity) to some extent. An affiliate is not the same as an owned and operated station, which is owned by the Mountain Train Radio network Affiliate marketing typically refers to an Electronic commerce version of the traditional agent/referral fee sales channel concept. An e-commerce affiliate is a website which links back to an e-commerce site such as Am... (read more)
Author: William Hegemann
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14. Muslim Rap Group Uses Islam to Send Positive Messages
November 24, 2006
Critics of American rap music say it glamorizes "thug" life, and contains too many violent themes and profanity. But one Muslim rap trio, known as Native Deen, is aiming to do the exact opposite with its music. The American rappers incorporate the teachings of Islam to send positive messages to their fans.
They may sound like any other American rap group, but listen closer and you'll hear a big difference.
(singing) "I'm so glad to be M-U-S-L-I-M"
Native Deen is a Muslim rap group. Founding members Joshua Ahmad, Naeem Muhammad and Abdul-Malik Ahmad are American-born Muslims all in their mid... (read more)
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15. The Soupy Sales Collection Released On DVD
March 24, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ventura, CA--March 27, 2006-- Soupy Sales is a throwback to the days when you could enjoy some good wholesome comedy without worrying about profanity or offending dialogue. Soupy and his cast of characters became legends of TV comedy and for the first time these classic performances are available in a three DVD set from Morada Vision. As the subtitle indicates on the cover of the DVD-The whole gang is here including White Fang, Black Tooth, and Pookie...plus some very special guests drop in such a Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis junior. The Rat Packs boys go to a ... (read more)
Author: Keith Hannaleck
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16. Gay Cowboys - And Other Hollywood Philosophies
March 06, 2006
The whole country is talking about the film Brokeback Mountain and it has created no small stir. On a Sunday morning TV editorial Charles Osgood pointed out that Hollywood is not tying to put forth a gay liberal agenda but rather are interested only in the bottom line – money. Although not inferred, it sounded like capturing the minds of adults or poisoning the minds of our youth was merely an incidental that happened on the way to the bank.
For over thirty years I have warned that it is not just what we see on films that can influence us. Each film has a philosophy attached to it whether... (read more)
Author: Michael Bresciani
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17. Learning How To Write
April 11, 2004
LEARNING HOW TO WRITE
Copyright 2004, Michael LaRocca
As a student of Spanish, my goal was to think in Spanish. Skip
the word-by-word translation so I'd have the necessary speed to
speak and listen. I know words in Spanish that I'd be hard
pressed to translate. Usually profanity, I confess. Chingow!
For years my students here in China have studied grammar, and
know it better than you or I. They read. They write. But
speaking involves moving faster than that. In conversation, we
don't have time to write it first and make sure it's all
grammatically flawless, then read it aloud, ... (read more)
Author: Michael LaRocca
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