California to Go ‘Cuss-Free?’

I don’t know, what is worse the cuss words or their overuse of the word “like”.

I think this is a GREAT idea !!! I would like to see the entire USA embrace this wonderful gift. This young man should run for Congress.

There is always the grandmother who inadvertently acquires a swearing parrot, or, in more extreme cases, is betrayed by it.

Huh
That’s almost as bad as people who forgot how to speak in a semi complete sentence. “May I have the last four of your social?”. I sometimes give them names of social clubs or social dieases. Usually I ask “Social what?” If they want the last four digits of my Social Security Number they should ask for it.

Given the state of California’s economy. Cussing was the only free thing we had left.

Has everyone forgotten that we have a Constition and that the first Amendment to that Constition affords us the right to FREE SPEECH. This law is rediculous, a true waste of time on the part of our legislation. Cursing is a form of expression for many and has more power behind it than saying shoot I just lost my job because California is too busy making sure we aren’t cussing instead of making sure our kids are in school. Awesome, go California.

This is a crock of bull. Fix the budget in California and then maybe I will stop cussing. Better still, stop firing teachers and then maybe I will stop cussing. The backwards logic that cursing has any correlation with drug use is absurd and asinine.
The inevitable next step in that logic is as follows:
Cussing is linked with drug use, drug use is linked to gangs, gangs get their drugs from terrorists, ergo: Cussing funds Terrorism.

Please stop linking morals to language use. Using a swear is not morally good or bad. They are words, most of which have pretty interesting etymological backgrounds. Just because they offend someone does not mean that the person who utters them is morally inferior to you non-swearing people

This fracking software!

For some odd reason I’m just not in the mood for “politics as usual.” This might be cute on a normal slow year. Right now I just wish they’d do the dang work they’re sent to office to do.

I think American phobia about children hearing swearwords is a cultural feature no more necessary or rational than wearing burqa or mutilation of girls. In some other countries, children are using the worst words their language has practically every day since the learn to talk and guess what? They are very well behaving, polite and in no way different than these non-cussing American kids.

The absence of cursing definitely should be something taught at home, it’s morally wrong, but I also think McKay Hatch is a very strong teenager to tackle this problem at school and I admire the California legislature for helping him feel that he’s accomplished something great. He could be a future lawmaker, and I’d like to see more morally conscious lawmakers in office. Wouldn’t you?

I hope no money is spent on this. This is ridiculous.

What happened to the state budget? Isn’t that more important then this?

Using cussing to insult or be aggressive with someone is not a mature or very bright thing to do. . .
However banning cussing . . . is a bad idea. Cussing is a way for people to release agression in a non-harmful way, and we have enough people going postal without repressing anger further. Next thing you know they will want to institute a law against cussing. I can say a cuss word in French, a really bad one, but no one seems to mind. Cuss words are just a phonetic sequence of sounds. And in fact, a cuss word is only as bad as the person who hears it allows it to be. If I say a *&%ing word and you allow your mind to react emotionally to it in a negative way, I didn’t do the most work on that, YOU did. The foulness was in your mind, not mine. So if you are having a bad emotional reaction to my *&%$ing word, maybe you should look in the mirror.

If we’re really gonna have a “no cuss” week in California it’s going to be impossible to describe how stupid our state legislature is for a week!! If our State were in great shape, this would be posturing time-wasting, but with the serious problems we have, this is nearly criminal waste of taxpaer resources. Screw them & the kid, too. I’ll say whatever I want when I stub my toe.

I like soft little fluffy bunnies..

Expletives do not ever have to be deleted if they are unexpressed. The sad thing in California is that many, young people in particular seem incapable of expressing themselves in colorful ways without verbally hitting below the waist. More tellingly, many commonly use the word, “God,” in a damning way. If this expression is a prayer one would hope it is not one the Almighty sees fit to answer.

As the State of California struggles with its worst financial crisis in decades, lawmakers in Sacramento have finally turned their attention to something really important. Come to think of it, perhaps this is a good idea after all. In fact, we need more legislation thought up by pubescent teens. How about an “I’m Rubber – You’re Glue Week” where everything unpleasant you say to someone bounces off them and sticks to you. This might curtail gang violence. Or maybe we should implement a “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire Week” during which, if you’re caught being untruthful, some official would actually douse you in gasoline and set you ablaze. Hey, it’s not any more ridiculous than many of the actual laws dreamed up in our halls of government.

I’m sorry, but this is ridiculous. There is so much going on in today’s world and so many great causes to get behind, and you focus your energy on getting people to stop cussing? Really? A word is just a word, and none of them can be inflammatory unless used as such. I’m against people verbally attacking others in any unwarranted situation, no matter what words they use. Our society recognizes some words are “good” and some words as “bad” and you cling to it so tightly for absolutely no reason. I don’t care what words anyone uses, because the words themselves mean nothing without ill intent behind them. Furthermore, there is absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever to show that ‘bad language’ is linked to drug use, bullying or other bad behavior. Saying it does doesn’t make it so. It’s pretty bad form to use an uninformed lie as one of your primary arguments.
Come on California, it’s time to grow up and move past these ridiculous issues. If you want to rally against the youth speaking broken English, I’m all for it, because that is more harmful to our society than cussing ever will be. Until we’ve worried about the more important issues in today’s world, however, I’ll hold off.

so let me guess, they re gonna make some words illegal? serously California should worry more bout economic aid and tax cuts, and the possibility of the creation of an economy bubble or another depression . this is why America is going toward Communism, tho its not a bad thing , if you think bout it