Who deemed them as being impolite or inappropriate language? I wonder who was the very first person to say that the F word and the S word (etc.) are gonna be referred to as curse words....
2006-06-21 16:57:26 · 8 answers · asked by High? 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Curse words actually used to be limited to phrases the took the Lord's name in veign. Cursing words. Over time it was extended to all words that may have been viewed obscene. They were and still are deemed obscene by polite society. You can look it up in detail in the Suprem Court records. There are countless discussions on what is obscene, but basically the definition is "Whatever the community decides is obscene", hence; obscenity changes from place to place. As for who said what first, every body wants to take credit for being first. Some think the F word started to describe the murders of Jack the Ripper. It supposedly started as an anogram, For Unlawful Carnal Knowlege, meaning the person got picked up for being the Ripper. The S word supposedly started with in Ireland. Earlier than that I can't be certain. Of course this could all be wrong. None of us were there and like I said everybody to take credit for being first.
2006-06-21 17:24:10 · answer #1 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have always heard the F word comes from an aconym of words:
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
When someone was convicted of adultery (I believe) they would be put in stocks (hands and arms locked into a piece of wood) in the public square to be shamed as their punishment - but they could not fit the whole word on the board of the Stocks, so the word was born of the initials (hence the sexual connontations associated with it).
2006-06-21 19:30:42 · answer #2 · answered by carole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You asked this before so this is the same answer:
f***: beleived to be from old english but there are other variations..the one i know of is in old dutch and its fokken and means to breed or copulate hence its verbal function today
sh**: originated from the old english word shite which is still used today in the UK
These words probably became deemed vulgar because they were "slang" used by the lower classes and the upper classes looked down on them and their language..i guess similar to if u said yo to the queen of england..specifically f**** was probably called a curse because it reduced human sexual intercouse to the level of breeding...i'm not sure about sh** though
2006-06-21 17:05:52 · answer #3 · answered by dandaman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not the words, it is the personal meaning people put into the word.And if negative meaning is intentionally precise it would be curse.You may feel that meaning with all your fibers,Meaning which entering you does not go away, does not dissipates, it stuck in you, carrying all the spoken intentions. Intentional meaning in positive terms would become a miraculous healing. Words filled by meaning is a creative force., God creates by word, remember? What it creates coming from human mouth we are learning.
2006-06-21 17:33:11 · answer #4 · answered by Oleg B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All human languages, from the 'ugh' to the most cultivated civilizations, function as expressions of our feelings, good and bad. We reserve certain words to express our disgust or anger and we keep them forbidden so they will 'mean' something when we use them ... but language changes constantly and the old taboos are replaced by new ones.
2006-06-21 18:00:53 · answer #5 · answered by Jonnie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_profane_words
Read the first link-it explains a lot about 'swearing' and the second link has a list of 'swear words'.
Hope i could help!
2006-06-21 23:22:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sailors who sailed with Captain Kook, (a Pirate) were flogged and to have this done to you, you would say that you were "F"loffed "U"nder "C"aptain "K"ook. You figure it out.
2006-06-21 17:04:57 · answer #7 · answered by pickle head 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
huh
2006-06-21 17:00:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋