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Title: Cuss Control : The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing by James V O'Connor ISBN: 0-609-80546-0 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 11 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: darn good
Comment: I was in the bookstore yesterday and the title of this book caught my eye. My first thought was "Why the @*!# should I control my cursing? That's when it struck me that my language has gotten a bit um...colorful lately and I bought the book. I'm happy to say that it's entertaining, clever and it makes it's case. Will it make me curb my salty tounge in the future? Well, for a little while anyway, yes.
Rating: 4
Summary: #~? %#!
Comment: Dagnabbit! Americans cuss too much. Or so is the finding of James V. O'Connor in his new book "Cuss Control." Actually not all Americans routinely turn the air blue with profanity, take the Lord's name in vain, pepper their sentences with the f-word as adjective, adverb and noun, or use the s-word for anything mildly disagreeable. Half of Americans polled don't cuss at all--at least not so that anyone else can hear them.
And that's a problem, isn't it? We have two Americas--one that thinks it can wear t-shirts to the ball game that would have gotten them arrested 15 years ago and another that keeps cable TV out of the house precisely so their kids don't grow up hearing those expressions.
O'Connor wants reform, and he wants it now. He knows that people aren't going to stop 100 percent of their swearing, and he doesn't advocate that, but he wants swear words restricted to their legitimate function--outbursts in the face of intolerable frustration and pain. He wants to outlaw "casual" cussing and put as much of a damper as possible on "causal" cussing. Instead of the sort of words we hear on NBC, O'Connor suggests expletives like "Man O Man," "Son of a Gun," "he got the tar knocked out of him," and so on.
Even better, says O'Connor, would be to remove the verbal heat that makes cussing and pseudo-cussing a necessity. If we would all cool down a little, our language wouldn't have to be so imprudent. Leave to work 15 minutes earlier and you won't be so tempted to flip off the guy who cut you off on the freeway. Put off going to the dry cleaners until tomorrow and you won't call the person who cuts in line at the supermarket a dirty name (well, not so she can hear, anyway).
O'Connor's ideas are useful, though at times a bit pollyannish (for the ultimate ugly 12-letter word he suggests as a substitute "buttercutter" because it scans the same). Ultimately, of course, O'Connor is right--if we could live together in a more civil way, we would keep a civil tongue. As such, "Cuss Control" is about half linguistics, half etiquette--and all useful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ought to required reading for junior high!
Comment: Ooh, this book made me cringe. I recognized myself more times than I cared to. I bought this book for the specific reason to help me curb my cursing and not only did it curb it, it has pretty much eliminated it.
Mr. O'Connor does an excellent job keeping the reader's attention. I appreciated his explanation of the two types of cursing: causal and casual. I have been able to eliminate casual cursing from my vocabulary and for the most part do very well with causal cursing even to the point of hopping around shouting 'shoot, shoot, shoot' when I stumped my toe recently.
I wish this book were required reading in public schools. My son's junior high is rife with colorful language. I know his language must have been just as bad as everyone elses. I had him and his buddy read through the book, and even through faked shocked giggles at the list of 'dirty' words the book got the point across to them and I've noticed that their language has cleaned up. I've even seen a dramatic decreases in the "Oh Gods" and "Gods" they say. They both said the book made a point of letting them know how ignorant they looked when their language was peppered with foul words. No, I didn't get them to read all the book but enough to make a difference.
Who am I? Well, suprisingly enough, a middle class college educated housewife with a strong religious backing who had found her language filled with the 'f' word and the cursing habit seemed ingrained and hard to break. Until I read Mr. O'Connor's book. Cringe, cringe, cringe....but it was worth the squirming hard look at myself to break this habit. I have been relatively curse free now for three months. The lessons learned in this book are not easily forgotten!
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Title: English as a Second F*cking Language : How to Swear Effectively, Explained in Detail with Numerous Examples Taken From Everyday Life by Sterling Johnson ISBN: 031214329X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English by Geoffrey Hughes ISBN: 0140267077 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Islam for Dummies by Malcolm Clark ISBN: 0764555030 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Consuming Passions: Help for Compulsive Shoppers by Ellen Mohr Catalano, Nina Sonenberg ISBN: 1879237385 Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond by Patricia Evans ISBN: 1558505822 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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