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Since this study is about swear words, it is important to know various types of swear words which will be discussed in the next sub-chapters.
2.2.1 Kinds of Swear Words
There are many kinds of swear words used in daily conversation. Wilde in www.bbc.co.uk dnah2g2brunelA753527 divides swear words into:
2.2.1.1 Body Talk–Male and Female
It includes the words or phrases such as: a.
Arse-up and balls up tends to be used to describe things go badly, b.
Cock, cock sparrow, pillock are vulgarities for penis, c.
Willy or willie is used for addressing penis, d.
Fanny or bum refer to buttock or vagina, and e.
Cunt which means female genetalia.
2.2.1.2 Intercourse Expression
Intercourse expression refers to a sexual activity. It consists of: a.
Fuck which means having sexual intercourse or to copulate, b.
Fokken, and c.
Bugger which has literal meaning as a sexual intercourse between males or between male and female in unnatural manner.
2.2.1.3 Micturations
It refers to bodily functions or secretions. They are: a.
Wee-wee which means focusing in urination, and b.
Plop-poo which means focusing on excretion.
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2.2.1.4 Excrement
The words or phrases that belong to this category are: a.
Shit which means to excrete, b.
Bullshit is used to mean rubbish or nonsense, and c.
Crap can be used to mean stuff or things.
2.2.1.5 Urine Expression
It includes the word piss which means describing the sound of urination.
2.2.1.6 General Insult
The words or phrases which are included into general insult are: a.
Bastard means that someone being ‘born the wrong side of the blanket’ or being ‘the son of a gun’;
b. Bitch is often used as a female form of ‘bastard’, and
c. Son of bitch originally means someone’s mother who was not married
when that person was conceived and born. Meanwhile, Sphere in http:ec.hku.hkelec1805sphererude_english.htm
adds kinds of swear words:
2.2.1.7 God
God is the infinite and all-knowing power in monotheistic religions. It is used for emphasis or to show strong feelings.
2.2.1.8. Damn
This word literally means to condemn or curse someone as being guilty. In some religions, when people are damned they will go to hell after they die, or if
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someone is damned in a legal or social sense, then they are to be punished in some way.
2.2.1.9. Hell
