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Why Do People Swear So Much? & How to Quickly Build Your Confidence

Something You Should Know

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The Science of Swearing

Humans have used guttural expressions to express our emotions for 100,000 years. There are taboos in every language which are ancient and we'd have some sense of them by looking at the Bible or the Quran about what could be said and by whom. So if you erase the taboo label on a swear word, does it then become not a swear word? In other words, swear words are taboo by definition.

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