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Hello everyone, History of Swear Words went out and asked random people a question. “What is your favourite swear word and why?” We got a variety of responses and picked our favourites to show you. Here’s what we got. Hope you enjoy!

Interviews Transcribed

Question: What is your favourite swear word and why?

Interviewer: 

• Commando, me (C)

Interviewees: 

• Brayden Chan (BC)
• Ethan Kim (EK)
• Bob Stewart (BS)
• Yoonsoo Lim (YL)
• Jeffery David (JD)
• Carmen Xu (CX)
• Kelly Yeung (KY)
• Shaan Singh (SS)
• Jonathan Liu (JL)
• Logan Rogers (LR)

Main Streeter: 

C: Helloooo everyone and welcome to the “History of Swear Words,” it’s Commando here and we’re going to be asking random people the question “What is your favourite swear word and why?” Here were some of the responses.

CX: My favourite swear word is the s-word because it’s not as intense as the f-word.

KY: The f-word is my favourite swear word because you can use it in every sentence and you can also really empathize what you’re saying and I also like it because it’s the first swear word I’ve ever learned.

SS: My favourite swear word definitely has to the f-word. When I play hockey, the word is commonly used throughout basically every single match that we do. Also, the f-word is a multi-use word. It can be used to express joy, anger, happiness, you name it; anything. So, the f-word is definitely my favourite swear word.  

C: Those were some people’s favourite swear words. If you liked this episode, please leave a like and if you wish to see more subscribe to our channel for more stuff about swear words. Thanks for listening to the “History of Swear Words.”

All the interviews: 

C: Helloooo everyone and welcome to the “History of Swear Words,” it’s Commando here and we’re going to be asking random people the question “What is your favourite swear word and why?” Here were some of the responses.

CX: My favourite swear word is the s-word because it’s not as intense as the f-word.

KY: The f-word is my favourite swear word because you can use it in every sentence and you can also really empathize what you’re saying and I also like it because it’s the first swear word I’ve ever learned.

SS: My favourite swear word definitely has to the f-word. When I play hockey, the word is commonly used throughout basically every single match that we do. Also, the f-word is a multi-use word. It can be used to express joy, anger, happiness, you name it; anything. So, the f-word is definitely my favourite swear word.  

EK: Fuck because I use it the most often and it’s versatile.

BS: I prefer not to swear and try not to swear. To answer your question, sorry, I don’t have a favourite swear word. 

YL: I like to use the b-word because a lot of my friends and I tease each other about being them.

BC: My favourite swear word is probably the a-word because my friends and I make a lot of jokes about it.

JL: I hear the f-word quite often since I work at a construction site. I don’t have a favourite swear word, but the f-word is the one I use the most.

LR: My favourite swear word is the b-word. I play soccer and you can hear it quite often when playing. I find that it is fun to use, so I use it.

C: Those were some people’s favourite swear words. If you liked this episode, please leave a like and if you wish to see more subscribe to our channel for more stuff about swear words. Thanks for listening to the “History of Swear Words.”

Great interviews are more than just the answers received. They are a result of great questioning and these questions are developed by interviewer. They use interview techniques to get the best interviews possible. These techniques were demonstrated in the movie, “Shattered Glass.” This post will showcase five interview techniques that we found important.

• For a successful interview, the goal is to get all the information you planned to receive and a little more. That’s a lot of information to be taking in and it is often for people to forget without writing information down. Recording every single detail is a technique used to make sure that you don’t forget anything. Every quote, every word, every detail can help a writer in their article. You should have enough information to be able to paint a picture to someone else about the interview.

• We always hear that we should never assume and that applies for interviews as well. You should never assume a detail before fact-checking. You must be certain that what you say is true or else there could be irreversible repercussions. These could include issues with peoples’ reputations such as your own and the interviewee. That can destroy your credibility and mislead audiences about your interviewee. 

• A fundamental skill for any writer is fact-checking. The new media platforms have provided many reliable and unreliable sources for everyone. The key is to find the sources that are reliable to fact-check. Nobody wants to fact-check unreliable sources because it defeats the purpose of fact-checking. Making sure that your information is true is a good technique of providing good content for your audiences.

• You would never go to a driver’s test unprepared and the same goes for interviews. Always prepare in advance the questions you’re thinking of asking and what you want to get out of the interview. The questions are used as a guide for where you want your interview to be going. Lack of preparation can result in a bad interview and you never want that. To avoid this, make sure to always be prepared. 

• Not everything is completed after the interview. You may need to check up with them or ask them some further questions and you can’t do this without their contact information. Our technology makes it nearly impossible to not be able to contact someone. Make sure to keep contact information in a place where you won’t lose it. This will ensure that you can contact them in the future if you need to.

Interviews are a key part in collecting information and take a lot of experience to master. Using these five techniques inspired by “Shattered Glass” can help you get the interview you’re looking for.

1. Bleep

• With our podcast being about swear words, we feel the bleep would be very appropriate to use. We will be using it as a form of censorship when a swear word is used. This is especially important with a school audience because we wouldn’t want to be swearing a lot without censorship. 

2. Crowd Clapping

• Crowd clapping will add excitement and hopefully keep the audience entertained. We will be using the crowd clapping as a gesture and for guests that come on the Podcast. 

3. Transition Music

• Transition music is very important to our podcast. It will be easier for our audience to keep up when we transition from one topic to another and it will create fluidity throughout our Podcast.

4. Background Music

• Sometimes hearing a lot of information about a certain topic can be boring. The use of background music is a technique we’re going to use to keep the audience engaged and interested.

5. Laughing

• We will be using the laughing effect as a comic relief. It can be an indicator when we’re telling a joke or used ironically to make a bad joke into a funny one. Television shows commonly use this technique because it makes the audience more engaged.

6. Horns

• Using horns would have a funny effect when we “cross the line” a little. For example, we may get carried away and say these swear words constantly and by using the horn we can show the audience that we are going too far. It will also give the audience a gag and comedic relief.

7. Fireworks

• The sound of fireworks tends to be satisfying so along with the crowd clapping we can add some fireworks as it will compliment the crowd clapping. 

8. Phone Ring

• A phone ring would be a good effect to the intro or we might use it to indicate an example. The phone ring will be used to make things sound smoothly or add effect throughout the Podcast.

9. Cars passing on a road

• You wake up late, and there’s traffic. You are late for work so you become frustrated so you start to swear a lot. This is a great example and we can breakdown why people use these words in moments of frustration.

10. Dropping an object on your foot

• It’s common when people stub their toe, or drop something on themselves they swear out of pain. Pain and frustration play a key role in reasons why people swear. We can use this effect and break it down as an example

In conclusion, sounds are extremely important. The way you use sounds can completely change the quality and mood of a video. We wanted to include sounds that would match with the topic of swear words. History of Swear Words wanted to use these sounds to engage and make the listeners interested.

Many things in this world have different meanings and can be interpreted in different ways. This is especially applied when it comes to words. 

Coming from different backgrounds will differentiate your beliefs and opinions. For these reasons, there are many different interpretations and meanings of words. There are many examples of this in the English dictionary.

Homonyms are a great example of this. Homonyms are words that are spelled or have the same pronunciation but have different meanings. The word address is a great example of this. It can either mean to speak to someone or is a specific location. 

For this story segment we will focus on the various meanings and interpretations of certain swear words. Each episode will discuss the different meanings and interpretations of the words featured.

Continue reading “Meaning” →

A majority of us have had our own encounters with swearing. This segment is going to focus on sharing the experiences of our guests and our own personal experiences with swear words. Everyone in their daily life has experienced some form of swearing. This will provide a variety of perspectives on how people use swear words.

We are going to bring in some guests to share their experiences. Our plan is to invite someone to the sound lab and give them a prompt to answer. A promt would be “how do you use swear words in your daily life?” These types of questions will be asked and we will leave them in the room with the mic to share. Then we’ll select the best answers to use.

Sharing these personal experiences is a form of entertainment as well as a way to engage the listener. Sharing personal anecdotes engages the listener by relating to them. This engages the listener and adds different perspectives that people aren’t accustomed to.

Often when people are given something, they neglect where it came from. This story segment is going to be focusing on the history of different swear words. Looking more specifically into the different origin stories of various swear words. We will focus on how they have changed over time.

For example, the N-word. We would talk about how the N-word was originally used to denote African slaves but now is used as slang by various groups of people. We will be focusing the origin as well as the reasoning behind the origin.

Our plan is to talk about the origin of a swear word featured in an episode. This means that we would spend some time discussing the origin and the evolution of the curse word. The swear word will determine how much time we spend on discussing their history due to the fact that we believe some words’ histories are more significant to others.

Learning about the origin and reasoning can help the audience understand and gain another perspective of these words.

History of Swear Words is about exploring different perspectives of swear words. In the article “‘Damn that’s good’: Evangelical group wants Burger King to clean up Impossible Whopper ad,” it discusses the controversy around profanity in a Burger King advertisement. A man in the commercial tasted their burger and responded by saying “damn, that’s good!” The activist group, One Million Moms, was aiming to have the commercial canceled or edit out the word “damn.” This issue relates to our topic in various ways, which is important because we can use this as a good example of good interview journalism techniques to use in our podcast.

People like Timothy Jay, a professor of psychology emeritus at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, voiced their opinion on the issue. Timothy Jay responded to the issue by saying that cursing has now become more mainstream, “the religious right is obviously more empowered by the conservative climate we have right now, so that’s why it hits a nerve.” This quote shows why he thinks the One Million Moms are pressed about the advertisement. Then he goes on to add that they’re not complaining about isn’t banned and provides examples supporting his argument. He stated political leaders like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders that have said the occasional d-word. This is trying to prove the point that it isn’t as significant as the One Million Moms have made it out to be.

Another perspective was presented by Angeline Close Scheinbaum, the associate professor of marketing at Clemson University. The article mentioned that she discussed that companies are after “brand authenticity” with their marketing. Meaning the goal of brand authenticity is “capturing raw, unedited emotions that convey a lasting message.” The quote is what Angeline is referring to what Burger King was doing in the commercial. Instead of having the people’s reactions in the commercials filtered, Burger King wanted authentic, emotion-filled responses. 

In order to get these quotations, we thought of possible questions that were asked during their interview. For example, a question asking Timothy Jay could be “Why do you think the One Million Moms chose this issue?” A question for Angeline Scheinbaum could’ve been “What do you think Burger King’s intentions were?”

If we were to ask some questions about this issue, we would ask the two main parties, Burger King and One Million Moms.

A question we would ask Burger King would be “What is your response to One Million Moms wanting you to cancel or edit the man saying ‘damn that’s good’ from your Impossible Whopper commercial?” This question would find out where Burger King stands on this issue because they have yet to comment on the issue. Another question for Burger King would be “What are the marketing limits in commercials on curse words?” Finding out the regulations of swear words in commercials will test if Burger King wasn’t supposed to include that interview in their commercial.

For the One Million Moms, we would ask “If the d-word were replaced by a word like sh*t, would you still be pushing for Burger King to delete or edit out that part in the commercial. This would find out if One Million Moms aren’t upset with the fact that they swore, but the fact that they offended their religion. Another question would be “Do you think the person in the commercial swore with bad intent?” This would check two things, whether intentions matter to them and what did they think of the person in the commercial. The final question would be “What message do you think having the d-word in the commercial sends to younger audiences?” This question tests how to sever they think the issue is and their beliefs on religion for younger children.

One Million Moms have good intentions when it comes to trying to keep the media clean, but Timothy and Angeline both discussed good points defending Burger King. The fact of the matter is nothing in the media is going to be one hundred percent clean and as kids growing up in this new technology age, we know that to be the case from our experiences. In our podcast, we discuss topics like people’s intentions and from our perspective, Burger King nor the man saying the d-word had any bad intention. He was just expressing his emotions and Burger King’s job was to capture that for people to see.

Link to the article

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/damn-thats-good-evangelical-group-wants-burger-king-to-clean-up-impossible-whopper-ad/

Who is Gary Vaynerchuk?

Gary Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur and best known for his work in digital marketing and social media. He often uses his own life experiences to give advice and motivate his audience. He’s also well known for his uncensored personality.

The majority of Gary’s videos have him swearing in them. Sometimes he gets some backlash for using swear words in his videos and some encourage it. We thought that Gary would be an excellent person to interview because he is a person that uses and is affected by swear words in his daily life. He could show us his perspective and history with swear words.

Script

C: Welcome back to the “History of Swear Words!”

J: In today’s episode, we have a very special guest known for his motivational speeches, Gary Vee!

Gary: Hello everyone, glad to be on the “History of Swear Words.”

J: Glad to have you here! So, Gary, our Podcast is about the different perspectives of cursing and you’re infamous for swearing a lot when you speak.

J: We wanted to learn your perspective on why swear a lot.

Gary: The reason I swear so much is because that’s how I’ve always talked and grown comfortable speaking, it’s my way of being myself. I want to show my true self to my audience. I would rather have me be true to myself than be someone I’m not for someone to like me.

C: A lot of us have grown up swearing as well, but at what point does it become rude or offensive?

Gary: Great question! I realize that some people don’t like it when I swear, but it’s all about intention. I don’t mean to offend anyone, but there’s always someone who’s going to be offended by my use of language. I would say to them “I respect that you don’t like swear words and ask them if we can agree to get past my use of language and focus on the message in my speech.” This focuses on the message I’m trying to get at.

B: Do you think people focus too much on your swearing and not enough on your message?

G: I completely agree with that statement when the only thing the person is acknowledging is my use of language. The swear words I use are a way of expressing my message to my audience and as I said before if you could get past that and focus on my message that would be beneficial for both of us. I get if you can’t and I have no problem with that. To avoid this issue, it’s as easy as swiping up or clicking another video.

J: Back to the point about being yourself, what impact do you think your swearing has on your audience?

Gary: I think audiences appreciate authenticity and when I’m swearing, my audience knows that I’m being my true self. This makes them relate to me more.

B: Well that is all the time we have for today.

B: Thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate you taking the time out of your day.

Gary: No problem! A great discussion we had. Thanks for having me!

The End

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