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| Subject: The truth about why we swear Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:20 pm | |
| In traffic, spectating sport, at your laptop - it's something many people do regularly.
Swearing - using taboo words that refer to sex or deprecate someone's religion or relatives - happens in many different cultures. While people often swear to intentionally offend someone, when they are angry or frustrated, they also use these words to intensify meaning or in mateship - as a way to be part of a group with the shared language of swearing.
Swearing dates back centuries. The characters in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written in the 14th century use taboo words to refer to genitalia. The c-word is used in several instances.
http://www.essentialkids.com.au/life/home/the-truth-about-why-we-swear-20190108-h19v8n |
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