732: Current and Future Swears (C.W.7) Dec 9, 2016

This is the last post for Curse Week II and the 2-year anniversary!
Although many of the curse-words we have now have existed for a long time, and have embedded themselves so thoroughly in language that .7% of English speakers lexicon is made up of the mere 10 phrases: 'f*ck', 'sh*t', 'hell', 'G-d damn it', 'ass', 'b*tch', 'damn', 'oh my G-d', and 'suck', particularly the first 2, which is nearly as much as people use all 1st person plural pronouns. Linguists now, realizing that words change as societies change have come up with theories on the most prominent future-insults. One linguist has theorized that insults will be derived of class differences, so terms like 'salt of the earth', 'trash', 'chav', or 'urban' would become more offensive. Others have suggested that insults about mental illness will become more prominent, such as, 'schizo', 'mental', or 'aspy'. This, however is no quick process, and likely we won't really know.

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