Who made up curse words?

Answer 1

Swearing goes back farther than written language so we can't tell exactly when it started. It's my guess that swear words were invented right along with language itself.

Answer 2

Philologically speaking, English words almost entirely come from an ancestral mother tongue called Indo-European, whose daughter languages had daughter languages spoken from Ireland to India, Persia and even China. The meanings and sounds agree in these languages such that we can say the original speakers probably came from somewhere between Eastern Europe and Western Asia. They knew snow and the apple tree, the cow and the pig; they did not know the palm or the giraffe.

English is a mix of two IE languages, the Germanic Anglo-Saxon and the Latin Norman French.Norman conquest caused French words for things to represent, generally, their finer aspect while the English words for the same things are used for their coarser form. Cattle and swine in the barn are beef and pork on the table, having become French in the refineries of the kitchen.

The IE roots grew into different words and different ideas in dozens of daughter languages. An odd example, perhaps, is the English word arrow, from the IE root arkw- that comes back into English, through the French, as arch, from the Latin for bow.

Answer 3

The Devil!

I have a theory that may help. I believe that a Wicken created the words, maybe from the devil. I do not believe in God or the Devil or any mythical being.

I think that a Wicken was talking or doing some type of "spell" to call in demons or something else,then a person from a Catholic or Christian faith over heard or may have seen the practice happening and may have caught a few words from the worshiper. Then they presented it to a powerful church or some other people and then made them "Bad Words". Because like every thick headed Christian only God can talk since into them. Or what they think is "God".

Answer 4

Sanskrit is the oldest language and as an indian or more exactly ARYAVARTEE i have been listening to VARDAAN (BOON) and SHRAAP (CURSE) dealt out by the gods, so it is as old as the creation. -- ashok varma, anuashok ashram, hospital chawk,narkatiaganj, west champaran, BIHAR, INDIA

Answer 5

um,...................important people, well people who thought these words were sware words, they probably decided they were sware words while they were making the dictionary's?

................well idk if you think my answer is stupid................i don't care because i am A SMART COOKIE........ALRIGHT...............GOOD!.......................BYE BYE.

Answer 6

A bunch of prudes who decided that some words were worthy to give offense. Who stuck the feather up their ass? Nobody knows...

Answer 7

I dont know but someboby dumb.