Why bother creating swear words in the first place then?
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because people had nothing better to do
Who knows who first used the "s" word to mean the product of a bodily function? The same thing with the "f" word to mean sexual intercourse. The "b" word and the "sob" words are actually true words, but who knows when they were first used as derogatory words to call someone? The "GD" words were used first to call a curse upon someone as in "G damn you to hell". Nobody can answer your question for who started them.
You can go to Barnes and Noble or Borders and get an etymology and etiology of words reference book. You can see all of the histories of words that are in English and how they got to where they are today!
In general most vulgar or inappropriate words had a basis in real of factual life at some point. We also use words out of context in English. That is largely the doing of TV pop-culture and. For instance; ***** is a female dog that has had a puppy or is in heat. It can never refer to a human in any way shape or form. Yet, you hear it on the Westminster Dog Show TV commentary being used, and not censored in any way as it is used correctly. If the commentator turned to Leanza Coronet and said, I think you are a *****..., that would be a multiple thousand dollar FCC violation, and likely get someone fired. Same word correctly applied and then wrongly applied. The female human can never be a member of the canine family and thus the word can never apply to her.
*** = small stick, not homosexual, ****** = bundle of small sticks. If you ask an English man for a *** he will give you a cigarette. This is really an interesting part of the English language and you can really have a great deal of fun with it!
I personally don't like to swear - unless it is really very personally necessary ~ and or to REALLY get a point across.
No 'One' invented swearing, it is something that arises in all languages and in effect, the words used invariably have the explosive force and or sounds of a gun going off.
It's that 'need' to 'make the noise that expresses the emotional tensions as it EXPLODES' which we humans feel ~ as I understand one learned explanation I once heard.
Sash.
Some parent decided arbitrarily, at some point in the past, that those words said out of the mouth of a squinty-eyed snot-nosed child was abhorrent. They then decided to make a rule saying that the kid could no longer use that word, upon threat of 'five-across-the-eye'.
Other parents followed.
And there you have it!
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