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m71134 wrote:

samurai768 wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

Actually, these are called 'euphemisms'- they're words that are used to replace words that might seem to harsh.

Yeah, but they should be used sparingly, shouldn't they?

Hmm...I think that some words that are used instead of bad words really don't have the same meaning as the original word. They are still not good, but they aren't as bad.

What is it that makes them different from the original word? They still mean it the same way, though it may not sound like that to other people.

16Skittles wrote:

yeah... how people used them had a big difference in their meanings. the a word used to mean donkey.

And then it was used as an insult. It still does mean donkey. Anyway, the other version is different from the donkey version, if you know the word I'm talking about.

Penguinsrock wrote:

Aidan wrote:

16Skittles wrote:

yeah... how people used them had a big difference in their meanings. the a word used to mean donkey.

And then it was used as an insult. It still does mean donkey. Anyway, the other version is different from the donkey version, if you know the word I'm talking about.

Exactly. It meant donkey....Then you're bottom O.O.....And now it's used as an insult too.

Yes, but the British version distinctly means "bottom"

This is an old idea...

What I think is that humans needed a way to express ways of intense anger or frustration and so created words that don't have religious meaning but are insulting.

Last edited by JeanTheFox (2010-08-05 16:51:11)

I was too lazy to read the whole thread, but anyways, I can make the word "The""is"and "a" into a bad word. So imma take an article of wikipedia and censor all the "the"s "is" and "a".:


Elen* K*g*n (pronounced /'ke?g?n/; born *pril 28, 1960)[2] * * design*ted *ssoci*te Justice on * United St*tes Supreme Court, *nd will t*ke office on *ugust 7 2010. K*g*n will be * Court's 112th justice *nd fourth fem*le justice. Prior to her confirm*tion, she served *s Solicitor Gener*l of * United St*tes under President B*r*ck Ob*m* from 2009 to 2010.
K*g*n w*s born *nd r**ed in New York City. *fter *ttending Princeton, Oxford, *nd H*rv*rd L*w School, she completed feder*l Court of *ppe*ls *nd Supreme Court clerkships. She beg*n her c*reer *s * professor *t * University of Chic*go L*w School, le*ving to serve *s *n *ssoci*te White House Counsel *nd l*ter policy *dv*er under President Bill Clinton. *fter * nomin*tion to * United St*tes Court of *ppe*ls for * D.C. Circuit, which expired without *ction, she bec*me * professor *t H*rv*rd L*w School *nd w*s l*ter n*med its De*n.
She w*s *ppointed Solicitor Gener*l by President Ob*m* on J*nu*ry 26, 2009. On M*y 10, 2010, Ob*m* nomin*ted K*g*n to * Supreme Court to fill * v*c*ncy from * impending retirement of Justice John P*ul Stevens *t * end of * Supreme Court's 2009–2010 term.[4][5] K*g*n w*s confirmed by * United St*tes Sen*te on *ugust 5, 2010, by * vote of 63–37.

Last edited by fg123 (2010-08-06 01:35:12)

steppenwulf wrote:

They're bad because they have explicate meanings.

I once spent a night researching swear words for what they really meants instead of doing a project.

Ace-of-Spades wrote:

They're bad words now, they've got innappropriate meanings now. Why exactly are we discussing this? If it's some attempt to change the rules of the site, I'm pretty sure sanddude has remade his topic by now.

No. I'm just wondering. Jeez. I like the rules of the site. No offense to him, but I don't really like sandude.

samurai768 wrote:

Why are bad words "bad words"? It's not like if you say them (maybe if you are religous, sorry) a puppy dies, they're just sounds your mouth makes. I'm not encouraging you to cuss or be a pottymouth, I just don't get it. It's not like if a bird happened to make that sound it would be a bad bird, right?

The only problem is, cussing out of context makes no sense and if you're cussing in context your talking about something you probably shouldn't be.

Auctually it depends because things such as the F word are needed (verb), but not things as such as the D word or the B word.(replaced with things like * and idiot)

I don't even know what the D word is
A B C D E F G words