Re: Profane?

From: Patrick Jarrett

| What defines a word to be profane? In what point does a language and its
people accept the word to be a profanity and not just a word? Why and how do
people start new ones as a slang term?
|
| Just something I have been pondering and wanted my colleagues opinions.

The general process of how a word becomes "vulgar" (a taboo word is pretty much
the same thing): the "dirty word" was usually a "legitimate" word, and political
correctness demands a softer, gentler euphemism.  Like how we went from Old
English _scitan_ to Modern English "go potty"...

~DaW~


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