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Why Are Bad Words Bad?
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.
When you call customer service
and hear this "to ensure quality service
your call may be monitored or recorded", they're not kidding.
Over the last year the Marchex Institute analysed more than 600,000
recorded phone conversations Americans made
to businesses in the United States.
Turns out, people from Ohio were the most likely
to use curse words - the 'A' word, the 'F' word and the 'S' word.
Washington state residents were the least likely to use bad words.
But what makes
a word bad?
Oh, be careful because etymologically speaking
even the word 'bad' can be considered a bad word.
It began in old English as a derogatory term
for an effeminate man. Eighty percent of swear words overheard
in public in 1986, 1997 and 2006
were essentially the same. One third of all counts included
the top two - the 'F' word and the 'S' word.
Slate's brilliant Lexicon Valley podcast purported that
these 10 words makeup about 0.7% of the average
English speakers daily vocabulary, which means
socially unacceptable words are used almost as often
as socially descriptive words. First person plural pronouns account for about
1% of the words we say everyday.
When a bad word is bleeped, it is covered with a 1
kilohertz sine wave, which sounds like this.
Son of a ...
By the way, the symbols and squiggles that are used to represent
a bad word have a name. They're called grawlixes.
They were named by Mort Walker in his seminal
"The Lexicon of Comicana." He names a lot of things but most of
them show stuff, they don't hide stuff.
Why the need to hide bad words, especially if we all
pretty much know what's being said? Well, there is no one single reason bad words
are bad.
Steven Pinker in his excellent lecture on the topic delineates
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