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11 Aug 2010, 11:19 pm

I don't know if i remember this correctly, so i am just making sure.



Swear words are the result of the germans losing so many wars, and becoming the subjects of other countries, and their language being deemed inappropriate, specifically in areas of bodily function, so the swear words we see today is the product of that belief in inappropriate social conduct


I feel like i have this wrong somewhere, and i can't remember what the germans were called, because they weren't called germans when this happened.


Can anyone help me out? And/or refute this claim.



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11 Aug 2010, 11:59 pm

Goths?



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12 Aug 2010, 2:04 am

olso4644 wrote:
I don't know if i remember this correctly, so i am just making sure.

Swear words are the result of the germans losing so many wars, and becoming the subjects of other countries, and their language being deemed inappropriate, specifically in areas of bodily function, so the swear words we see today is the product of that belief in inappropriate social conduct


I feel like i have this wrong somewhere, and i can't remember what the germans were called, because they weren't called germans when this happened.


Can anyone help me out? And/or refute this claim.


I don't think they invented swear words... I think they discovered them, because they were so frustrated that they couldn't think of any other word to discribe the rage they were going through for losing the war... :lol:



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12 Aug 2010, 4:00 am

I thought swear words wer invented by religious fundamentalist. The word "God" is used quite a lot with swearing so I thought bad words wer related to the bible


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12 Aug 2010, 4:31 am

Cuss words would probably be one of the first things people used language for. So you know, Ughh, and Warrrgh!


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12 Aug 2010, 6:55 am

I would guess that there have been word taboos for as long as there has been language.

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12 Aug 2010, 5:53 pm

you_are_what_you_is wrote:
I would guess that there have been word taboos for as long as there has been language.

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This.

The story about the Germans, though amusing, is untrue. Our beloved S-word has been part of the English language for a very long time. The Old English word scitte is the ancestor of our favourite* swear word, but it's even older than that. Other languages that are related to English, such as German and Dutch, have similar words. In fact, s**t comes from an ancient Indo-European word that originally meant something like 'cut' (no kidding).

Not all swear words are as old as that, but to my knowledge, none of them are from German.

*maybe


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12 Aug 2010, 6:27 pm

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you_are_what_you_is wrote:
I would guess that there have been word taboos for as long as there has been language.

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This.

The story about the Germans, though amusing, is untrue. Our beloved S-word has been part of the English language for a very long time. The Old English word scitte is the ancestor of our favourite* swear word, but it's even older than that. Other languages that are related to English, such as German and Dutch, have similar words. In fact, s**t comes from an ancient Indo-European word that originally meant something like 'cut' (no kidding).

Not all swear words are as old as that, but to my knowledge, none of them are from German.

*maybe


Witch S-word are you talking about :?: there's two of em


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12 Aug 2010, 8:12 pm

I'm referring to this delightful substance:

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I'm assuming the WP censors star it out...


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12 Aug 2010, 11:14 pm

Hodor wrote:
I'm referring to this delightful substance:

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I'm assuming the WP censors star it out...


ah, soft swirl chocolate icecream :) yum



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12 Aug 2010, 11:25 pm

^ :lol:


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12 Aug 2010, 11:32 pm

A story completely full of itself, but entertaining nonetheless:

Ever wonder where the word "s**t" comes from. Well here it is:

Certain types of manure used to be transported (as everything was back then) by ship. In dry form it weighs a lot less, but once water (at sea) hit it. It not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by-product is methane gas.

As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen; methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern. BOOOOM!

Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was discovered what was happening.

After that, the bundles of manure where always stamped with the term "S.H.I.T" on them which meant to the sailors to "Ship High In Transit." In other words, high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.

Bet you didn't know that one.


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12 Aug 2010, 11:40 pm

gee, and all this time i thought it was a workplace neologistic acronym, standing for "Special High Intensity Training."



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13 Aug 2010, 12:02 am

What a delightful little piece of information... :lol:


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13 Aug 2010, 8:45 am

Hodor wrote:
you_are_what_you_is wrote:
I would guess that there have been word taboos for as long as there has been language.

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This.

The story about the Germans, though amusing, is untrue. Our beloved S-word has been part of the English language for a very long time. The Old English word scitte is the ancestor of our favourite* swear word, but it's even older than that. Other languages that are related to English, such as German and Dutch, have similar words. In fact, s**t comes from an ancient Indo-European word that originally meant something like 'cut' (no kidding).

Not all swear words are as old as that, but to my knowledge, none of them are from German.

*maybe


The f-word came from German. Please look up the video "The history of the F-word" for details. :D



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13 Aug 2010, 10:55 am

Yes, f**k is a bastardization of fornicate.


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