Comments | hakuyama: I found this Interesting:

hakuyama

I found this Interesting:

Feb 06, 2007 13:20

Why are sex words our worst swearwords ( Read more... )

Comments 5

fierydragonsky February 6 2007, 19:40:37 UTC

It just provides additional evidence that we humans are hung up on sex more than anything else.

klgaffney February 6 2007, 22:05:29 UTC

ooh. that was a nifty read--the various cultural takes are fascinating. (go philly ink!)

sky_dark February 7 2007, 00:48:25 UTC

It makes me wanna swear more.

dreamyraven February 7 2007, 18:40:30 UTC

A fairly interesting article. But as a Finn, I must admit that it isn't entirely correct. Sure, we can't use our versions of fuck as swear words, but several words meaning various sex organs are extremely popular swear words. Hands down the most used swear word is vittu, which means vagina.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003521.html has more on Finnish swear words^^

(Sorry for sorta waltzing in. I happened to see this post and it interested me. Hope you don't mind^^ )

hakuyama February 8 2007, 17:32:32 UTC

Stop by anytime ^_^ ...
Thanks for the clarifications. It's nice to hear things from the "source".

(And I want to squish and cuddle your puppy...)