is damn even a cussword? |
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is damn even a cussword? |
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to hell with you ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 2,547 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,506 ![]() |
some people think damn is a cuzz word cuz whenever i say damn they're all like *gasp! u cussed!*but the thing is i dont cuss and damn doesnt seem like a cussword to me.
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Stalking Createblog... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 155 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,300 ![]() |
"The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!"
--Ashley Montagu (b. 1905), U.S. anthropologist, social biologist. The Anatomy of Swearing, ch. 3, Macmillan (1967). Hm. ![]() If we would look at it that way, then our answer is that it's the thought that counts. ^Then again, that's the basis of almost anything we say. |
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