Since when did the word "piss" become a bad word?
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"piss" comes from the french word pissuer, the place where we go to urinate. Custom always has placed taboo on anything to do with body function
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Curse words date back to the early 17th century. It was said that Witches invented them. It was believed that when a witch put a spell (or a curse) on something, they would yell certain words. These words were thus believed to hold bad things and were not accepted. The history passed on for years and years, however, in the 1900's people started using the words as a means of pillory. The meaning of the words continued to evolve and are what we hear today.\n\n\n\nBy the way - that is a bunch of BS, but it is believeable!
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It's a euphemism for "damn hell" originating in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, when many such euphemisms became popular, such as\n\nGee whiz\nGosh darn\nCrimeny\nJeez\nDash it all\nHoly cow\nHoly moley\nCripes\n...and many, many, many more.
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Profanity is an extension of taboo vocabulary and is universal in all human languages.  Therefore, the first humans to use modern language (about 100,000 years ago) "invented" taboo vocabulary, and, by extension, the inappropriate use of taboo vocabulary, which is profanity.\n\nEDIT:  As a note, "f u c k" is NOT an acronym, it is reconstructible to Proto-Germanic as a term for human intercourse *fuk- and ultimately is a euphemism based on Proto-Indo-European *pug- 'to strike'.  It is not, and has NEVER been, and acronym.  It has an ancient Indo-European pedigree.
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I applaud you for finally trying to replace the vulgar word, and with the right media, like yahoo, it could reach many in some time, but you have to be patient. On account of kids today and they're love for the N word, they will try to protect it, because Bushaka is not 'cool' yet, but you made a wise decision on spreading it in "Riker's" because most 'street/gangsta' trends came from there, so it could catch fire and blow up soon. And don't be put off, by the man who answered above me, unlike him, I read the whole article and I know that Bushaka is inclusive which means anyone can use it it actually unites better than any other word. BUSHAKA, lol
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Absolutely not. "Pissed" actually has several different meanings. I learned this the first time I went to London. Over there when they say "I was pissed out of me mind" it simply means drunk. Theres nothing wrong with that word. Only uptight anal retentives would get in a twist over it.\n\n-J.
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Being called 'b*tch' is now somewhat popular. If you don't like it, tell them.
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I think it's because the "n" word has historically been such an oppressive, negatively-charged word... it was used in a very derogatory way back when slavery and segregation were a normal part of life.  For white people to use the word in modern times is like giving a nod of approval to the way black people were treated back then.  Black people using racial slurs to refer to white people is still a bit unpleasant, but it doesn't have quite that same historical undertone to it.
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I've always thought it didn't make sense. Truth is, a lot of profanities were once perfectly acceptable words. 'C---' was used by Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales, and is the derivation of the word 'quaint' (and rhymes with how the word would have sounded in Middle English). A 'W---' was American military slang for a bed in WW2, and I'm sure you can use your own imagination for how it's meaning changed. Despite what people might tell you, no one really knows the derivation of the word 'F---' but what is known is that it's earliest recorded use is the 13th century.\nAnd so on.\nWhat I find most odd is how people substitute other words for a profanity. For example, someone might say, 'Oh sugar!' instead of a more robust, 'Oh S---!'. This, it seems to me, is daft. In this case everyone knows what the word 'sugar' is replacing and so it has the same meaning. We might say that is fine, but the word 'sugar' is not so ugly. Well, fair enough. That might be the case now but how long will it be until 'sugar' etc are deemed profanities just like our modern swear words were once acceptable.\nI don't mind swearing. There's a place for a good, well-timed, 'Oh F--- off!' And neither do I think it's a limited vocabulary. Those words do the job VERY well at times. What worries me most are the semi-literate idiots who punctuate sentences with, 'you know what I mean', 'yeah' and 'right' etc. I find that far more offensive.
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During the 'brown period' (betweeen 11 BC and 9 BC), caves were filled with shit and puke. Man tried everything including cooking, which cured the shits for good. BTW, that was also the origin of the word "BINGO!"
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Usually when people write f**** you,  they would be using a coarse slang. They would use it as an intensive to express annoyance etc.
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There are many American slang words. They can vary in meaning depending on region. Try this site:\nhttp://www.manythings.org/slang/\nAlso, try http://www.urbandictionary.com/ though be warned that it's unfiltered, so a lot of it is rather unclean.
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I hate the word "Whatever" when used as a phrase!  My kids were in their teen years when it became popular, and THAT was always the answer to anything I told them to do, or when I was getting on to them for doing something wrong!!  And they didn't use it nicely, but aggressively, or sarcastically!!\n\nGGGRRRRRRR!  If ONE word could make me see red...THAT was the word!  Thank goodness they're grown up now, and rarely use it!
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They have gone through the same struggle for racial equality  and are making fun of a degrading word. Others that have not experienced the same history of racism, discrimination,and degradation have no right to use that word.\n Especially from people that was doing most of the degradation  in the first place.
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It's generally used in the UK as a euphemism for going to the toilet....\n\neuphemism:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism
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The word you are referring to was a place people were from. Thats how at that time they were labeled, by where they had been taken from. It didn't originate with 2 G's but one as in Niger. But over time thats how all african americans became reffered to. In all honesty, it might not mean as much as it does had it not been used the way it was. But because it was said with such hate and disgust it became a new curse word. And I think the reason that african americans can use to word on each other without being offended is this. Not all of us are like them and we can't say that we know how it is to be them. So for someone of a different race to say it to them is to be discriminated against.
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No one really invented the word it evolved over time to come to mean what it does today\n\nc.1340, "discharge of semen other than during sex," later, "desecration, defilement" (1382), from L.L. pollutionem (nom. pollutio) "defilement," from L. polluere "to soil, defile, contaminate," from por- "before" + -luere "smear," related to lutum "mud," and to lues "filth" (cf. Gk. lyma "filth, dirt, disgrace," lymax "rubbish, refuse," O.Ir. loth "mud, dirt," Lith. lutynas "pool, puddle"). Sense of "contamination of the environment" first recorded c.1860, but not common until c.1955. Pollute (v.) is attested from c.1380 in sense "defile," from L. pollutus, pp. of polluere. Meaning "contaminate the environment" first recorded 1954. Pollutant is from 1892.