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Not that I don't like to see him miserable but if saying fuck counts as a meltdown, I meltdown every time I speak. Honestly, its not even a signifier of stress, its more likely to signal your being genuine
How many times can you recall a president cursing when talking to reporters? Even Trump doesn't curse much in his tweets or press briefings. So it's definitely notable.
He seemed calmer than his normal demeanour
It's one of those things. When you can't find a better way to express your frustration as an educated person than resorting to dropping f-bombs, it is indicative of a low vocabulary.
Anyone else with a basic high-school education thrust into the spotlight would find a way to express themselves and their thought in a clear and cohesive way.
But they are obviously the ones who don't know what the fuck they're doing.
There was a time when I would've agreed with you. I still endeavour to this day to avoid profanity.
Today, however, I don't agree that using "fuck" is at all an indicator of a low vocabulary (except in the case of overuse, but that's true of any word). There are emotions that civil people aren't supposed to feel, so we need words that we aren't supposed to use to express them.
Fuck can be used to great effect, and should be.
There are no words that can express the same as curse words. Otherwise, we wouldn't use them as much.
Words are words. And they are used to communicate. I don't understand the American panic about this small set of words. They are words like any other.
Non-american countries also have some people that panic about curse words, but I don't think they match the level of panic of Americans.
Ohhhh buddy , most of europe prides itself on their vast vocabulary of curse words/sentances and how they can say fuck your family in 50 different ways
There are actually studies that show intelligence and more explicit language go hand-in-hand, so it's actually the opposite of your presumption. When I find it, I'll link the study here in a comment edit.
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Link to CNN article with study
Nice ego.
Yea. Its not that he used the word "fuck". It is in the context of working with Netanyahu, then seeing that Netanyahu has no real respect for Trump or the US military as long as they support his wars. So Trump gets flustered realizing his Israeli buddy has no respect for the US and then says "fuck". It just hows Trump has no international relations abilities and he doesn't know what is going on.
Context matters. Someone using profanity more often than they otherwise would in the same context is generally a signifier of stress or excitement.
For fucks sake, me too.
(I apologise for the above meltdown)
Eh... "Fuck" is just a filler word for most New York Natives in general.
Fucking hell, I'm having a meltdown in this very sentence.