# "Say dammit, Daddy," A Preschooler's Knows When To Swear **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 7, 2012, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-dammit-daddy-a-preschoolers-knows-when-to-swear/643288 "2012-12-07T12:57:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-dammit-daddy-a-preschoolers-knows-when-to-swear/643288/41 "2012-12-17T21:09:49Z")
> [@SandyHook](#): > > About thirty years ago I was at a friend’s house. His two year old daughter looked out the window to see Ms Hook parking my truck out front. She pointed and informed her father, “SandyHook’s fuck.” > > My friend, who’s only been known to use damn, or bullshit a couple of times in the thirty-five years I’ve know him, was a little embarrassed and quickly informed me that they were working on her t’s. > > I pointed out that she could have been pointing at Ms Hook. > > My friend, who’s always been extremely supportive of his children, jumped on that and said, “Good, Ann, that’s very good.” Which reminds me of **WordMan** ’s wonderful incident [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6374515&postcount=35). ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-dammit-daddy-a-preschoolers-knows-when-to-swear/643288/42 "2012-12-17T21:54:01Z")
My then 3 year-old nephew loved a character called [Plucka Duck](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plucka_Duck). I was out shopping with him & my sister one Christmas and a nice elderly lady running the checkout spotted his _Pluka Duck_ T-shirt and asked him who he wanted to be when he grew up. Of course he yelled “Fuck a Duck” in that carrying way that only an exited child can manage. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-dammit-daddy-a-preschoolers-knows-when-to-swear/643288/43 "2012-12-17T23:13:17Z")
This came up again yesterday. So I asked her what “dammit” means. With all the seriousness of a four-year-old, she said, “you dropped something.” Good thing we don’t drive much over here so she’d learn more vocabulary words. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-dammit-daddy-a-preschoolers-knows-when-to-swear/643288/44 "2012-12-22T03:35:07Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Famous Bill Cosby routine - he thought his name was “Jeeeeee-zus Christ!” because every time his father saw him he’d yell that. “My brother Russell thought his name was Dammit!”. > > One day his father saw him, yelled “Dammit, get over here!”. “No dad, I’m Jesus Christ”. > > “I don’t remember much of the rest of that day”. “So we moved to a new neighborhood and the kids asked me, they said ‘What’s your name?’ ‘I’m Jesus Christ.’ ‘Your name ain’t no Jesus Christ.’ ‘Come to my house, I’ll prove it.’ So they followed me home, and my dad walked into the living room. There were forty kids hanging out in the living room. ‘Jeeeeee-zus Christ!’” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-dammit-daddy-a-preschoolers-knows-when-to-swear/643288/45 "2012-12-23T16:47:49Z")
The Littest Briston [sounds off](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=420995) on the topic… ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-dammit-daddy-a-preschoolers-knows-when-to-swear/643288/46 "2012-12-23T18:08:43Z")
I had my 14-month-old daughter with me for a long weekend (she was \*just \*starting to talk, but was normally very, very quiet). I carried her into the kitchen on Friday morning, only to find that the fridge had shut itself off during the night and the floor was flooded with melted ice water. Very loudly, I said “Goddammit!” Sunday afternoon, I took her back to her mom’s after attending church. We were sitting in the living room chatting while she ran around playing. Finally, she took a huge leap through the air and shouted “GODDAMMIT!” Loudly, with absolutely perfect diction and intonation. You’d have sworn there was another adult in the room. I was shocked (open-mouthed); her mom thought it was really funny and couldn’t stop laughing. The baby laughed too, though she wasn’t quite sure why she should. I think she was proud of herself for having learned a new word. I can’t help thinking it would have been 1,000 times funnier if she had shouted it in church… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-dammit-daddy-a-preschoolers-knows-when-to-swear/643288.md?page=2)