{"id":10512,"date":"2011-10-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/02\/mumbai-college-students-campaign-against-swear-words\/"},"modified":"2011-10-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T12:00:00","slug":"mumbai-college-students-campaign-against-swear-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/02\/mumbai-college-students-campaign-against-swear-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai College Students Campaign Against Swear Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/mumbai\/report_mumbai-college-students-start-campaign-against-use-of-f-word_1590096\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, September 22, 2011 (DNA): Tired of the increasing use of swear words by youngsters, students of third year bachelors of mass media (TYBMM) from RD National College, Bandra have started a campaign called &#8216;No Abusive Language,&#8217; aiming to convince other students that swearing is not cool anymore.<\/p>\n<p>They are trying hard to encourage students to stop using abusive language even in jest or as a joke. If you feel the urge to swear, they advise substituting another word or phrase such as &#8220;basket of flowers&#8221;, &#8220;freak&#8221; or &#8220;fish.&#8221; [A HPI staff member noted that catchy words with plosive consonants, such as &#8220;Rutabaga!&#8221; and &#8220;Bumblebees!&#8221;, can be satisfying substitutes.]<\/p>\n<p>Everly Gladros, a student involved in the campaign, noted that we use abusive language without thinking twice&#8211;when we are angry, sad, irritated or upset, or even just for fun. Even mainstream movies have characters using bad words, making them seem still more acceptable. &#8220;We want to break the myth that abusing is cool and makes one popular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The students have put up posters promoting their campaign on gutters, garbage bins, and other &#8220;dirty&#8221; places. &#8220;We want to tell people that swear words are dirty and they belong in the gutter. We have created garbage bins where students can throw in dirty words,&#8221; said Nupur Maheshwari, another participant.<\/p>\n<p>The students have created a Facebook page, a viral video and other online activities to spread the word. They are also talking about this issue with the people in their neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MUMBAI, INDIA, September 22, 2011 (DNA): Tired of the increasing use of swear words by youngsters, students of third,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}