Who invented swear words?
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pagan-babe
ANSWERS: 8
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I don't know, but I would like to have stopped him. I don't like swear words
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Og the caveman. He dropped a rock on his foot and said "urakk" which is believed to be the first swear word ever.
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An angry angry angry angry man.
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Bitchy VonDammit.
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I don't know...but I'd like to thank him...and YES.. I said HIM.
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Our Parents so they had something to get mad at us about!! :)
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cartmen off south park
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Thousands (maybe even millions) of years ago, at the dawn of higher cognitive communications, certain sounds and actions were used to express frustration, and anger. These first explatives would not have been words in even the loosest of senses, but they would have given birth to them when early humans began using more and more complex languages. Even primitive members of the Homo line such as Heidelberg man would have found ways to express those very same emotions, using sounds and body language almost exclusive to anger, frustration, and displays of aggressive intent. Going back even further, even primates "swear" in their own way. You ever see a pissed off chimp? Of coarse, we all have. And we can tell it is pissed. That time you went to the zoo and saw two chimps screaming and baring their teeth at each other, that's ape for "fuck you". Really, we've been managing to curse since long before we could actually talk. We modern humans are just a lot more talented and creative with it.
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