Why are curse words bad?
Most people just use them as exclamations but what exactly makes them bad
22-25, M
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Curse words tend to be created by the lower classes as forms of expression.
They originally probably got banned because employers; the church or the crown considered them either vulgar or personally offensive statements on their character !
If you take a 'reasonably' safe word like....Goddamn. God in this instance was thought to be from the Norse -[i]goth[/i] and [i]damnare[/i] was Latin. Meaning, to condemn.
Perfectly usable in Norse society. It was only when the French started using it to describe the English back in the 1340's during the hundred years war that it was seen as a curse word !
They originally probably got banned because employers; the church or the crown considered them either vulgar or personally offensive statements on their character !
If you take a 'reasonably' safe word like....Goddamn. God in this instance was thought to be from the Norse -[i]goth[/i] and [i]damnare[/i] was Latin. Meaning, to condemn.
Perfectly usable in Norse society. It was only when the French started using it to describe the English back in the 1340's during the hundred years war that it was seen as a curse word !
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
My favourite curse word is Bollocks ! If for no other reason than you can put some [i]real[/i] venom behind it when you say it !
It means either male testicles, or rubbish; lies; bullshit depending on how it's used.
Many different ideas as to where this originated. Some say olde English some say French from about the middle-ages
It means either male testicles, or rubbish; lies; bullshit depending on how it's used.
Many different ideas as to where this originated. Some say olde English some say French from about the middle-ages