PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to History Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThus is ybore the Englisshe tungelemmy.worldimagemessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down11
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minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months agoAlso why swear words are swears. They’re what the common people called things, and it was a way of denigrating the proletariat to regard it as foul language. Shit Vs excrement Fuck Vs copulate Etc
minus-squarewhelk@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoAs someone who avoids swearing, this really makes me want to start
minus-squareDestide@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoMost of our short abrupt words came from Vikings like Skull and most of our swear words. Not the culturally superior Saxons
minus-squareBeNotAfraid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoYou’d have to google individual etymology if you wanted an answer for that.
Also why swear words are swears. They’re what the common people called things, and it was a way of denigrating the proletariat to regard it as foul language.
Shit Vs excrement
Fuck Vs copulate
Etc
As someone who avoids swearing, this really makes me want to start
Most of our short abrupt words came from Vikings like Skull and most of our swear words. Not the culturally superior Saxons
You’d have to google individual etymology if you wanted an answer for that.