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I once asked why swear words were bad, and the religious guy I asked couldn't answer me with anything except "well... erm... Satan takes things and substitutes inappropriate terms... er..."
I think the only reasons they're considered bad are partly because they tend to have a harsh, quite guttural sound, but mostly just because we're conditioned to think of them as bad.
A kid on my road once had a toy break on him, and said "shit" about it in a very matter of fact way. His mother was in earshot and disapprovingly asked "Luke, what did you just say?"
"I said 'shit' " he pronounced loudly across the road. He'd picked it up from other kids at school, and had no idea what a "swear word" was.
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