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minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-25 days agoAlso 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
minus-squarewhelk@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 days agoAs someone who avoids swearing, this really makes me want to start
minus-squareBeNotAfraid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 days agoYou’d have to google individual etymology if you wanted an answer for that.
minus-squareDestide@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoMost of our short abrupt words came from Vikings like Skull and most of our swear words. Not the culturally superior Saxons
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
As someone who avoids swearing, this really makes me want to start
You’d have to google individual etymology if you wanted an answer for that.
Most of our short abrupt words came from Vikings like Skull and most of our swear words. Not the culturally superior Saxons