I don’t get it. These words restrict what can be on TV and radio. They change the ratings of games and movies. We go through all this effort to keep these words hidden away from our children, even though the second they hit school they are going to pick them up from another kid most likely.
Why is it that we treat these words like black sheep?
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If a word it’s perceived by the speaker and society to be taboo, it’s a swear word. In the French speaking province of Quebec, Canada, people have traditionally been ultra Catholic, but also not prudish about bodily functions, due to the frontier realities. So where a Parisian might exclaim “merde!”(shit), a Montrealer would say “calice!(chalice), or “tabernac!”(tabernacle).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity
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