Germanshepherdsmum
So, OP, having heard a lot of opinions, do you still think your swearing and ‘everyday parlance’ and the way your grandparents spoke about children are acceptable? You talk about what is said all the time where you come from. Roughly whereabouts is that?
To answer three questions that have been asked of me.
1. Why Geneaology. I had been reading the Bishop of Glasgow's curse on the Boarder Rievers five centuries ago my family were one of the main ones. I thought how we speak today and how my parents, grandparents and great grandparents spoke. I realised that we still use some old words and phrases and cursing was and still is part of everyday language.
2. Where do I live, I leave you to work that one out only to say it's renowned for its rain. A lot of sayings are Irish as there were close links, Holy Mary is one. Often used in Irish plays on T.V.
3. As to the cursing in the house I think the answers say it all. Young people today use gutter language I have never used and never would but have had it used at me as a teacher by children as young as 5 and their parents all my career. You only have to hear children on a school bus or in a playground and you realise how foul our language is developing.
Maybe as grandparents, we should try to curb it, as a teacher said to us at school "Swearing is a sign of ignorance you use a swear word because you can't think of a better," Maybe we should show by example and broaden both our own and grandchildren's descriptive language skills.
To finish "Assa Marra how do?", still used today. I say old chap how are you this fine Sunday morning? I certainly won't be giving that up. Can we really as grandparents the "old fossils really change the world . I think after reading some posts on M.N and the language used it will be an uphill struggle.