Why are most bad words 4 letters long?

Question

And like one syllable. Is it simply they are easier to say? I could call you a FRIC! or a SMIL! whatever that is.. why don't they have a word like a hippomamodorcafud? or some kind of 17 letter equivalent.

Answer 1

b****(female dog) isn't a 4 letter wrd.....

Answer 2

Mother fxcker is the longest one i know lol

but i hear ya

I guess when you stub your toe or something in the middle of the night its easier to say a 1 syllable swear word than a 17 letter one ... you'd be like oh "hippomam----- aww forget it MY TOE!!"

Answer 3

Maybe it's because when you're angry the quickest and easiest words to spew out are monosyllabic, four-letter words. Hippomamodorcfud! is simply too long and clumsy to suit a quick burst of rage! What do you think?

Answer 4

Bollocks

Answer 5

What about motherf*****. That's a long one. In other countries they have longer ones also. My favorite is the F word because you can do SO much combinations with that word. Like F off or F'd over or F tard.

Answer 6

My theory is that, unintelligent people might not be able to come up with creative ways to insult someone, so the words they use might have to be short and guttoral.

Answer 7

because for the people who use them excessively, 4 letter-long words are the longest words they know.

Answer 8

The people who thought them up couldn't count to 5.

Answer 9

Here are some bad four-letter words you shouldn't call people if you don't know for sure what they are: lazy, ugly, dumb, aged, etc.

Answer 10

Because if they were 5 letters long, we couldn't refer to them as "4-letter words."

(Man, what do they teach you guys in school today anyway?? :) )

Answer 11

Appropriate for the mentality of the people that use them.