• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Also why swear words are swears. They’re what the common people called things, and it was a way of denigrating the proletariat to regard it as foul language.

    Shit Vs excrement

    Fuck Vs copulate

    Etc

    • Destide@feddit.uk
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      4 days ago

      Most of our short abrupt words came from Vikings like Skull and most of our swear words. Not the culturally superior Saxons