Who decided what words are to be considered "cuss words"?
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No particular person decides, it's more a choice of society. Any word that comes across "valgure" is nominated. The truth is cuss words are a way of someone expressing his/her feelings, and that's freedom of speech... isn't it?
1071648
LMAO!!! As my fiancee says, he makes up cuss words while watching baseball or hockey! I'm trying to figure that one out myself.
151405
Society determines bad words, which is why some words are only bad in when said in front of certain people.  The word "bloody" is considered foul in England, but not here unless you know it is bad there.
769693
holy crap\noh my f***in god\ngod damn\n \nwhat more do ya want, there's so many cuss words in the english language its hilarious
718413
perspective?\n\n      Obviously so. \n\n      Profane strictly speaking means disrespectful toward the sacred.\n\n      Obscene? \n      Some words for body parts, sexual activities, excretory functions and material are considered vulgar, and inappropriate for polite conversation.\n\n      Some words are filtered instantly. I wasn't allowed to say: don't be a pussy  (p---y). But you will I think be allowed to say penis,in this context.\n\n      It must be that someone makes a complaint: re "community guidelines", and then the judgment is made to delete something.\n\n       People who want to be censors, would tend to be strict, uptight folks. \n\n       Just work around it, dude. You can write the first letter and then put blank spaces. \n\n       F--k off, censoring mother f----ers.
702973
They seem to be swear words. Here is a link.\nJust type in the words at the top
647102
My family used to be (when my parents were still alive and us kids were closer to home) prone to getting into heated "discussions" about most any topic. Whatever the popular opinion, my dad would always play the devils advocate, and off we'd go, debating darned near anything. One Sunday, we got into it about cursing. Part of us took the stance that only the designated curse words were truly curse words, and who decided what they were anyway? And part of us took the side that ANY word would be a curse word if used with the right emotion. Ex: if you say darn and you really meant damn, or really WANTED to say damn, then you may as well have gone ahead and said damn! The others were no way! Only the word damn is a curse word, and darn and heck and shoot are all perfectly good alternatives...well, so it went in my house!\nPoint being, I personally think that it's the emotion behind the word used, and say, in the case of Tourette's, there is no emotion intended, just an uncontrollable outburst of words that just happen to be considered foul by society. Now, having said all that, the Bible does have something to say about not allowing a rotten saying to come out of our mouths, along with swearing (as in "I swear to God I didn't take your purse!" The Bible says to let our yes mean yes and our no mean no) You'll find those verses at Eph 4:29 and Matt 5:37.
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The only curse word the bible definitely says you shouldn't use is the word 'fools' \n \nMatthew 5:  5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire\n\nBut you can say 'fool' freely without being censored by the public. You can say 'fool' and not get fired. You can't say that other f-word though, because of old taboos, possibly Victorian in origin when polite society attempted to put sex in its place, to be used for reproductive purposes only.
35637
Someone is trying to say something explicit or trying to say a curse word and doesn't want to offend anyone so they will say, " dog *****." Don't have to blatently curse that way.
1103478
Correction : cerotillo,hueco pisado,pinche huey. They don't cuss any more or less than the rest of us,they just have a unique way of doing it. FYI: Cipote isn't a bad word,it just means little boy.
554609
actually this site has prescreened curse words and automatically puts in the astrix in place of them.  SO you have to be creative in order to say what you want.
957756
Usually when people write f**** you,  they would be using a coarse slang. They would use it as an intensive to express annoyance etc.
816459
Words are just words. I think it is the intent and the tone that makes them harsh. Think about it . Some people use curse words in an endearing way, " oh, isn't he a cute little s***"? Also, an other example would be the tone your mother uses to call your name. You know when you're in trouble. No, I do not think eliminating curse words would improve our society or that it is legally possible.
357235
Loins,  and the c word
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F**k is an English word which, when used literally as a verb, means "to engage in sexual intercourse". It is generally considered to be an offensive profanity. Its origins may be Germanic, akin to the synonymous German "ficken", which had the original meaning, "to strike".\n\nIt is unclear whether the word has always been considered vulgar, and if not, when it first started to be considered vulgar. Some evidence indicates that in some English-speaking locales it was considered acceptable as late as the 17th century meaning "to strike" or "to penetrate". Other evidence indicates that it may have become vulgar as early as the 16th century in England, although neither set of evidence is inherently contradictory to the other, since many words have multiple connotations. The etymology (origin) of the word is uncertain.\n\nThere are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word. One legend holds that the word f**k came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery they would be punished "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude", with "F U C K I N'" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime.
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i think it was sh!t or a$$, might have been sh!ta$$. my aunt was a master at cussing, and she was always saying things like you don't know sh!t from shine ola and your uncle don't know his a$$ from a hole in the ground. cracks me up thinking about some of the stuff she would say.
1060282
watch the swearing...and why did you ask this? *confused* i thought you hated cussing. you always told me you did. *sigh*