Who invented the swear words ?

Answer 1

All curse words were started from just that. Pagan curses. You know like a witch put a curse on you? That was the belief in medieval times and the words have stuck.

Some of the words we call swear words are really just misinterpret ted words from other languages. The F word is from German and means to err. The c word (rhymes with hunt) comes from Celtic Irish and just means woman. other words the meanings have just changed over time.

Answer 2

Man-kind invented swear words. What may be a swear word to one person, just may not be to another! Just like slang words, they developed in different cultures over the years down through generations. The church had a lot to do with what is considered vulgar and not. The Wikipedia can give you the history of many of them. Now in my travels I've discovered that every language had swear words.

Answer 3

See if I can get through this without being censored. The proverbial F word we all know is actually an acronym from the British days prior to America. The King in order to receive Taxes and reduce the food requirements put out an order which required that all couples had to request permission to have a child. Once permission was granted a sign would be posted at the couples residence which stated (Fornication Under Consent of King). AND NOW YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY), Sorry Paul Harvey.

Answer 4

hmmmmmm, how they have been given to be swear words, nicely i assume some words make human beings say or do countless issues, and who's acquainted with, down the line, say one thousand years from now, if this previous earth and the human race, continues to be human and around, they words used in the present day and perceived as swear words, ought to no longer be seen such in any respect, now what have been those words utilized in the present day as swear words or perhaps 200 years in the past,???? are you able to think of our founding fathers utilising the present batch that are interior the lexicon in the present day? of direction i think of the be conscious fructative has been corruppted, to you guessed it, and there replaced into an previous be conscious sounding like such, until now in midevil circumstances meaning to flourish and propergate, it replaced into additionally a be conscious used through fact the be conscious prick is used in the present day, as in pin prick, so besides, a lot of those words are valid words in different languages, yet do no longer attempt to assert them in blended or any formal company,or in corporation, you would be shocked how some human beings ask for somewhat bread and butter, lol try this learn on your man or woman, have exciting lol own opinion, words are exciting, hilarious certainly, and that i assume we actually do might desire to chortle at ourselves a minimum of the place words and language are worried

Answer 5

Well one day me and a few high ranking officials from the government (names classified) got together and decided the American language was too colorful... make a long story short we all picked a few words to cut out and had ourselves a good laugh just thinking about all the kids who would get in trouble just for saying our "blacklisted words"! And you'd be surprised how close "crap" was to making the list.

Answer 6

The Anglo-Saxons :

The latest thread on Elizabeth curse leads me to ask a serious question about our so called "four letter words"

I am wondering if anyone has ever made a study of the English so-called swear words, where they came from and how they became debased.

I know that linguistic studies have shown that words regarding things that do not change in a culture tend to be more stable and can trace the roots of a language back as far as 10,000 years. In particular, the four letter words we consider as "bad" words, involve either human body parts or bodily functions. Since these are all one syllable words, my understanding is that they are Germanic in origin. I know the S*** word has an equivalent in German, but the French language uses the M**** word from which our English word manure derives. (I think) Curiously, my "unabridged" dictionary from 1942 does not provide source material for the origin of the word manure. Both the fact that the words appear to have Germanic roots and the fact that they involve body parts or body functions would suggest ancient roots that would go back perhaps thousands of years.

I would be interested in any book or other research involving a serious history of the English four letter swear words and how they became abased as swear words. It is my guess, without any basis in knowledge, that the swear words were in common usage in English or the Anglo-Saxon tongues prior to the invasion of William the Conqueror, whose Norman-French heritage gave rise to the ascendancy of latin equivalents as polite speech for these body parts and bodily functions.

Many of our dual legal phrases come from the superimposition of French terms on the English courts of law after William the Conqueror took over England. This was to make it easier for everyone to know what was being said. "Aid and abet" is one such expression which is in fact a redundancy. Aid being the word more recently derived from French and Abet from Middle English "Abetten", which in turn derives from Old French.

Part of my fascination with this subject is that I was taught as young boy by parents who wished for me to have good manners that these words did not exist in the English Language! In my later years, it became clear that not only do they exist in the English Language, but these words probably extend back in time to a time well beyond known history.

Why, for example, do words which mean the same thing, have such negative connotations? How did they get that way? Who decided that they were swear words?

Some are easy. Although not officially a swear word, the word "******", is about as dehumanizing a word as there is. Yet it stems from the Latin word "niger" for black. How did that word go from Latin, which is presumed to be a polite form of speech, one of the most reviled words on the planet? The English four letter swear words are even more obscure to modern users and perhaps the answer may be lost to history. But I would like to know more. Wickpedia has an interesting history of the word without any reference to how that word was chosen to refer to people of dark skin.

Recent studies of the Native Americans have shown for example that there are three major language groupings in North American native languages although some 200 were originally thought to exist. These groupings,were at first scoffed at, but were later confirmed by DNA analysis. The analysis was done based on research into the most stable words in language such as water air, earth sky those sorts of things. I don't know if any of the researchers studied the history of the words for body parts and bodily functions.

Answer 7

Probably a man invented them, because they figured it would get woman to notice them! Actually when men swear, it makes them look like an ***!

Answer 8

Nobody in particular, really. Most of them evolve over a long period of time. Take the word damn for example. It means curse. Cursing somebody isn't very kind, so it was avoided. Of course you aren't going to let a child curse somebody, and eventually, it's a socially unacceptable thing to do or say. All cursing starts out that way.

Answer 9

Well many are variations of older words and some come from acronyms. For example: Shite is a Scottish word for animal dung. F.U.C.K. is an acronym for a crime in Puritan times. The crime was For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (it basically meant sex outside of marriage). A ***** is a female dog, we as humans bastardized it the word to be an insult to people. As you can see, we modify words to our own meanings.

Answer 10

I would think some foul mouthed individual invented swear words.

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