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Debate Swearing.
duckey94 posted on Jan 22, 2009 at 09:22PM
Alright, so we were kinda talking about this in Forensics, and I thought it was an interesting topic. If I were to constantly say "Chair!", instead of swearing, whenever one would normally swear, would it become a swear word itself?
The meaning of the word "Chair" isn't bad or gross or innapropriate at all, like most other swear words are, but if I were to use it as a swear word, wouldn't it come to have a bad meaning? On the one hand, words are only what we make of them. We can make them bad or positive or taboo'd. But, on the other, how can a word so innocent as chair, even if being used in a negative manner, come to mean the same thing as shit or damn?
last edited on Jan 22, 2009 at 09:34PM
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