Why are Cuss Words invented?

Answer 1

Every culture and society has words that are considered rude or vulgar, words that polite people do not say. Sometimes these words are about bodily functions (like words for the body's waste products), sometimes they are about religion (saying the name of God with words like Damn used to be a punishable offense in the Puritan era), sometimes they are about sex (including the many slang words that describe sexual relations).

Forbidden words (often called "swear words") have been a part of language for hundreds of years, and often reflect subjects that make that culture uncomfortable in some way. Interestingly, taboo words can change-- some words that used to be considered very vulgar are today completely acceptable. For example, few people are upset by "damn" the way they used to be; and the British word "bloody" is no longer considered a curse word by most people.

Answer 2

Have you ever stubbed your toe or slammed a finger in a door? Did you just stand there quietly or calmly say "well, that hurt."? No, you jumped up and down and yelled as loud as you could!

Curse words were invented because people need an emphatic way to release emotion. All curse words are emotional words. They express strong feelings in one or two words. When someone curses, they are feeling some sort of deep emotion that they either cannot express in any other way, or in some cases they do not know enough of the vocabulary to express in any other way. You will often find uneducated people using more curse words than educated people, just because the uneducated people don't know enough words to express themselves in an emotional situation.

Answer 3

Cuss words were originally invented from witches and warlocks and wizards. These words were made to put Curses on people, animals, meats, grains or herbs to poison people. "cuss" words are actually curse words.

Answer 4

People invented swear words because they wanted to get their anger out in some way. now days people just use swear words because they're there and they think it makes them cool because everyone else does it and they grew up with people that swear i.e. parents, siblings and friends.

Answer 5

To emphasize words, or to make them more powerful.

"You silly bastard" is much stronger than "You silly person".

Swear words can also be used to show anger.

It is often done for exclamation however it is also said those who use expletives (swear words) do so from a lack of ability to better use language. They make up for poor education and language skills by filling in sentences with profanities.

Answer 6

cussing was devolped in ancient Greece. By archemides or aristople. The reason was because back then when someone made someone else mad instead of saying something back to them to offend them. someone would just take a sword and just kill someone. So archemidies or aristople one of the two can't remmber invented words to fight back by mouth rather then killing or brutaly beating the other person.

Answer 7

Bad words are referred to as swears, as the act of using it in a sentence makes the word a swear itself. Cursing or swearing is when the word is used in a derogative manner towards another individual or object.