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Why Are Bad Words Bad?

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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.

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When you call customer service

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and hear this "to ensure quality service

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your call may be monitored or recorded", they're not kidding.

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Over the last year the Marchex Institute analysed more than 600,000

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recorded phone conversations Americans made

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to businesses in the United States.

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Turns out, people from Ohio were the most likely

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to use curse words - the 'A' word, the 'F' word and the 'S' word.

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Washington state residents were the least likely to use bad words.

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But what makes

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a word bad?

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Oh, be careful because etymologically speaking

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even the word 'bad' can be considered a bad word.

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It began in old English as a derogatory term

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for an effeminate man. Eighty percent of swear words overheard

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in public in 1986, 1997 and 2006

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were essentially the same. One third of all counts included

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the top two - the 'F' word and the 'S' word.

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Slate's brilliant Lexicon Valley podcast purported that

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these 10 words makeup about 0.7% of the average

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English speakers daily vocabulary, which means

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socially unacceptable words are used almost as often

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as socially descriptive words. First person plural pronouns account for about

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1% of the words we say everyday.

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When a bad word is bleeped, it is covered with a 1

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kilohertz sine wave, which sounds like this.

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Son of a ...

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By the way, the symbols and squiggles that are used to represent

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a bad word have a name. They're called grawlixes.

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They were named by Mort Walker in his seminal

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"The Lexicon of Comicana." He names a lot of things but most of

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them show stuff, they don't hide stuff.

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Why the need to hide bad words, especially if we all

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pretty much know what's being said? Well, there is no one single reason bad words

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are bad.

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Steven Pinker in his excellent lecture on the topic delineates

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