Its a funny concept, swearing that is. Not the sort of swearing where you promise someone something but rather the type of swearing that is also referred to as "Cursing" "Foul" and a variety of other things. The words your parents told you not to say, the things you utter when you drop something and it breaks, that's the type of swearing I'm talking about.
This type of swearing or cursing is often looked at as inappropriate or wrong but why? The "F-Bomb" is just sex, right? And the "S-word" is just a more aggressive way of saying poop or crap, so why then are these other forms of words considered offensive? There are two reasons I think; expression and aggression. Let's look at expression first.
Expression as in if something valuable breaks or is lost the words that you speak to express your feelings. These words in their actual meaning have little or nothing to do with what you're trying to say. Yelling poop when something is lost really doesn't express the frustration of the situation as well as actual words would but they're what we've accepted.
The other type of swearing; aggression, is person based on hurting others. Usually this is followed by "you" like "damn you" or Eff you" the difference in the swearing comes down to intention; were you expressing the pain you felt or were you intending to harm someone else?
I won't condem swearing nor will I accept it. It (generally) makes people sound like they lack intelligence or self-control when they use it but when it comes down to it swearing isnt much more than people expressing feelings the best they know how, be it intelligent sounding or not.
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