Why do we have words that we “aren’t supposed to say”? What decides what makes a swear word a bad word?
It can’t be meaning, because “poop” is fine and
“shit” is not. Or “sex” or “ruin” is fine, but “fuck” is not.
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I’ve heard that swear words were mostly used by lower class, serfs, and peasants. So overtime, upper class people would get very defensive of others who use such words. “You speak like a peasant, you must be a peasant. Be gone with you!”
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