I often sit and wonder about things as I’m a deep thinker
This thread is about the things you wonder about as you go about your day.
I’ll start
I wonder why the eff word or other swear words are classed as profanity when it’s just a word made up of letters like all other words.
I’m effed if I know. 
I wonder about words themselves quite often. I take an interest in the study of etymology. Curse words have taken on an entire culture in the States. When I hear curse words anymore, it’s just run of the mill. I came to the believe early in life that most people who use curse words frequently lack the vocabulary to express themselves otherwise. Then there are those times when only a curse word will do.
Here is a rabbit hole for you to go down. How many people will this world take before life becomes unsustainable. That is a rabbit hole I visit frequently. I don’t like where it takes me either.
Here’s a little trivia to ponder on:
About 80 percent of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin. Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots. In the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, the figure rises to over 90 percent .
Who’d have thunk it? 
Language fascinates me, and I too wonder a lot about words in general. For instance, in the English language there are a lot of words that didn’t make the grade. So many permutations of letters that didn’t evolve into words. We have, for example, bag, beg, big, bog and bug, and bat, bet, bit, bot and but. So why doesn’t this formula work for other combinations? I don’t think we have lam, lem, lim, lom or lum, or pab, peb, pib, pob or, oh hang on, yes we do have pub. But you get my drift.
And yes I know that’s not how language evolves. But I do think about all these non words and wonder what they could be used for 
As a believer in the Lord, I often wonder what it will be like , when my body dies and my spirit will be in the presence of God,
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is it really from “fornication under consent of the king”? I prefer the likely germanic origin. However, the reason it’s profane is onomatopoeia.
I often wonder how such ugly creatures as humans ended up running such a beautiful planet. If you see humans walking around naked you will see what I mean. Watching the very end of “don’t look up” is an example.
What an excellent movie
So true. Words are simply a means of communicating intent or emotion or whatever…at worst swearing is lazy but what was once considered profanity may no longer be and so on…stop being c@#nts about it and f$%cking move on…
The use of the f-word is right up my alley.
Not that I’m a constant user of it mind you!
I leave it for those moments when something’s really got me as mad as that-word!
I’m a word-lover from way back.
Have a website about them, and often get asked about the origin, etc.
The F-bomb is of Germanic origin, and related to words for to strike, or to move back and forth.
The first published source of the word, as we now know it spelled, is from the early 16th century.
The actual meaning at the time is debated, but it soon came to mean ‘to have sexual intercourse.’
(As an aside, f*** was published back then in its entirety (no asterisks), but ‘damned’ wasn’t!) 
It wasn’t until around 300 years later that f*** was used as a profanity - sometime in the mid 19th century.
Meanings change all the time. Such is language.
@bathsheba I think you would be surprised to hear that a number of those 3 letter words you mentioned were words from the past and present.
E.G.
Lam - is actually still a common word - among other meanings, it means to beat or thrash someone.
Lom is an old spelling of lamb.
In one sense, ‘pob’ is used for a sudden, heavy noise from striking a hard surface.
I will zipper my kisser now before I bore you all to tears! 
How about this:
Thieves broke into a brothel and stole all the f***ing money.
have to say, I think the C word is vile. something just horrible about that word. It’s a word I would never use. The eff word doesn’t offend me any more although it did in my younger days, I hated hearing people using it, now I’m just used to it. Even blokes use it in front of women without a second thought anymore
yeah you better had or I might have to pob ya lol
Agreed. Swearing seems such common place in every day modern language but yes, I have to agree on the C word. It is used in such a nasty way, as a pure insult and therefore has no real place.
The only New Years resolution I have ever kept, (and I make it every year) is to only use swear words beginning with B. As I only do ever use swear words beginning with B, and know quite a few of them, it has been a very easy resolution to keep.
I wonder … 
you little Bugger you lol
I don’t understand a lot people do, but women are smart. I say that because when I was growing up calling a woman or a girl a B**ch was considered an insult. Women as usual turned the tables on us now in the States women wear that title with pride and even proclaim it. Turning it into a character trait rather than an insult.
For me I never understood Anglo-Americans (I hate saying white people as if we’re all albinos) being referred to as Crackers. I never found that upsetting, nor derogatory, I just thought it was stupid.
I totally agree with you Queenie. I just cannot stand to hear or read that word.
