Whats wrong with a swear word? Its just a word after all. Could you turn the word 'biscuit' into a swear word?

Answer 1

Words have denotations (literal meanings) and connotations (what feeling or intention the word seems to have; an association). The power in swear worlds is the sharp connotation: shock value, exclamation, and attention grabbing. We reserve their use for special situations, & we prefer kids don't use them. They do serve a purpose if used properly.

It's probably easier in our culture to remove the "swear" out of a swear word than it is to create a new swear word. Our culture is always pushing the envelope about what is acceptable, so things that were offensive and simply not done 50 yrs ago are commonplace now. For example look at television: we are allowing common swear words onto TV that would never have been allowed a few decades ago. Or if you notice a few people sometimes have the bad habit of swearing in every sentence they say. After awhile of listening to them, the shock of hearing the words wears off and the speaker has totally lost their power.

To create a new swear word you not only have to get a word to have a new meaning (exclamation! insult, etc), you need it in widespread use. The quandry is that if it's already in widespread use you've already lost some of the shock value of it. The strongest profanity of today are words that date back to the middle ages or earlier; it's not something that can be created overnight.

One thing you can do is create new slang by creating whole new words or by convincing others an existing word has a new meaning. It's interesting to see how each decade has its own slang. The funny thing is the youth of that generation think they've invented something totally new, when in reality every generation and subgroup has its own lingo.

Answer 2

The problem with a 'swear word' is the intent behind it. Swearing nowadays is so common most people don't even seem fazed by it. Most people who use 'swear words' are really to intellectually handicapped to truly articulate, or portray, their point of view. I really do not see Biscuits turning into a 'swear word' anytime soon. Would you like a sausage with two biscuits on the side. Sorry couldn't resist.

Answer 3

it's the insult behind the word. For example, if for a long time, somebody has been bullying you and harassing you about biscuits and calling you a fat biscuit eating biscuit head soon you'd find the word 'biscuit' really nasty. It's because behind that word there is an insult, a deep hurting thing that you cannot tolerate. Again, there are people (such as me) who don't get offended by swearwords easily, only if I'm being sworn at not if somebody swears in front of me.

Answer 4

Swear words are words associated with anger, inconsideration of others, and topics that are not meant to be publicly discussed.

Certainly, it is just a word. If I feel like talking about "an *** carrying coffee beans up a mountain", I am simply speaking of an animal, a donkey.

However if I use that same word, but I'm speaking of buttocks, something that's used to create fecal matter, and speaking fecal matter is impolite, and by proxy, speaking of the butt, then, is also impolite, and since *that word* is used as crude emphasis, that word becomes very impolite at best, and highly offensive at worst.

And again, to speak of a person as that word, implies that he has the personality of either a donkey, or of a person's rear end. It is not polite to insult a person, it becomes more impolite to belittle them to the level of an animal, or a mere body part, and it becomes outright degrading to use such crude emphasis. To say such becomes an outright personal insult, whereas to say a person is "stubborn" is simple enough to avoid insulting anyone.

And yes, I could turn biscuit into a swear word, and in certain contexts here within my family, it already is. Any word can be made into a swear word, if it is meant to speak of impolite things, or as an insult.

Just look at the word "n00b" as opposed to "newbie".

Answer 5

Biscuit : If you decided with your gang to say biscuit to someone, when he does something wrong, in the intention to humiliate this person, then Biscuit is a swear word.
The issue is not the word itself, but what effect the word is known to do [Hurting the feelings of others].
That's why some swear words 100 years ago, are ordinary words now, because they lost their effect and people got used to hearing them, so they are not hurting anyone, Got it ?

Answer 6

A word in itself has no innate meaning.
It is only given a meaning by society who makes it signify something.

The word 'table' means nothing itself. If a non-English speaker heard the word they would not know what it meant. In English however it signifies an flat object with 4 legs. In some weird African language, however, 'table' may signify a large green lizard.

For this reason, swear words are only bad because they signify bad and aggressive sentiment. If everybody stopped using the word 'biscuit' to signify the tasty snack and instead used it only to express this bad sentiment then eventually (once the original meaning has fallen from memory) it would become a swear word.

Should we try?

Answer 7

They do have meanings. lots of meanings and many connotations. they are sensible words interior the right difficulty. those being: to precise or invoke emotion, to create wonder fee, to make a press release sound hilarious. pondering the actual undeniable reality that you're at a element in college that forbids swearing, they are probable getting used frequently for the 2d reason. and that is only immature. you shouldn't use them in college because it truly is disrespectful to the adults, the man scholars, and the entire institution. and also you should care because recognize is mandatory to social fulfillment. which ability: you may have more beneficial acquaintances and impression if you're respectful of each and every man or woman. So use swear words purely even as it truly is fairly significant and proper. i do not recognize why adults have the type of not user-friendly time explaining this. they could particularly only say, "No! because I stated so."

Answer 8

I suppose if every one started calling say coloured people "biscuit" then yes it would become offencive.
a lot of non offencive words have become swear words through society's miss use, such as the N word, the definition in the dictionary makes no mention of ethnic persuasion what so ever yet its miss use by biggots eventually blackened the word (no pun intended). so yes calling someone biscuit as an insult could eventualy make it a swear word.

Answer 9

i personally dont think theres anything wrong with swear words... after all, theyre just that... words, and a word only has as much power as you give it. there are some people, of course, who do not look at it this way, and i believe its because they are too weak minded to "overpower" the words... do i think you could make any word into a swear word??? well sure... a** didnt mean anything other than a mule until someone allowed it to, sh** was originally a term for a storage crate on a ship, if i remember correctly, and of course, c*ck was a rooster and p*ssy was just a cat. its all in what you let it mean.

Answer 10

No you can not turn a biscuit in to a swear word. But you should not even swear at people cause, cause how would you feel if someone sweared?