Using the word "sucks"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It means to perform fellatio. My kids don't use the word. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060816092212AAgleLt

That's just the origin of the word. It has evolved to mean something that is worthless or bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know where the phrase originated, but in my experience most people don't think of it that way and consider it fairly mild. We warned our kids that it could be considered vulgar, and would always make a worse impression than other milder or more pleasant words. We've set the expectation that they're to avoid the use of such language knowingly around adults, though I don't care how they speak around just their friends as long as they're not being cruel to someone present.

I got in trouble in, I think, fifth grade because I said that something "sucked." The teacher had to let me off, though, because I truly did not know why it was a bad thing to say and she didn't want to explain it to me.

I classify "sucks" as a mild vulgarity. I think it's an expression that has come unmoored from its origins.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know where the phrase originated, but in my experience most people don't think of it that way and consider it fairly mild. We warned our kids that it could be considered vulgar, and would always make a worse impression than other milder or more pleasant words. We've set the expectation that they're to avoid the use of such language knowingly around adults, though I don't care how they speak around just their friends as long as they're not being cruel to someone present.

I got in trouble in, I think, fifth grade because I said that something "sucked." The teacher had to let me off, though, because I truly did not know why it was a bad thing to say and she didn't want to explain it to me.

I classify "sucks" as a mild vulgarity. I think it's an expression that has come unmoored from its origins.

+1. I never even think about it as anything other than a slightly stronger and slightly more crass version of stinks. Doesn't even register as vulgarity to me and I wouldn't raise an eyebrow to hear it said by anyone from a toddler to my grandma to my priest back when I attended church regularly. Eye-opening thread though to see the range of views on the topic, especially those who are so strongly against it or consider it sexually charged still or very offensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It means to perform fellatio. My kids don't use the word. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060816092212AAgleLt

That's just the origin of the word. It has evolved to mean something that is worthless or bad.

+1 and it's been that way for a while. I don't have a problem with the word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many people hear the word and think oral sex. So yeah a child that age saying it is offensive?
Do you get that? I would never say so to other parents but my children are not allowed to use that word.

I have never, ever related the two. Ever. I'm kind creeped out that you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many people hear the word and think oral sex. So yeah a child that age saying it is offensive?
Do you get that? I would never say so to other parents but my children are not allowed to use that word.

I have never, ever related the two. Ever. I'm kind creeped out that you do.

Ignorance is not an excuse.

[Anonymous]

I would never let my kids to use it. Same as "What the heck?" and other similar phrases. But I cannot guarantee that they don't use it in communication with peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never let my kids to use it. Same as "What the heck?" and other similar phrases. But I cannot guarantee that they don't use it in communication with peers.

"What the heck" is fine in my opinion. My 9 year old has used that and I don't see any issue with this at all. The word "sucks" however is vulgar and inappropriate for young people to use in front of adults. My kids never use the word. I have heard my older DS's friends use it and was shocked the first time I heard them use it. I didn't, however, prevent him from seeing them because of it. I just told him that he was not to use that word.