This was a forum post here:
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but I wanted to make it a pick since people usually pay more attention to the picks. lol.

Seriously, it's all about the force and meaning we have behind our words. If I mean and feel the same thing when I say chair as when I say shit, wouldn't it become a swear word, too?

I agree all the cuss words were normal words anyway before they became bad because ppl made them that way

This got me thinking. If I were yelling chair to keep from yelling shit once (perhaps watching language in front of children) then I wouldn't consider it a profanity. Maybe an interesting interjection? If I have for 10 years been yelling chair in place of shit... perhaps it could be considered a swear word.

BUT... If the word was joy instead of chair, and was ment sarcastically, would joy with it's sarcasic nature be considered profane?

Curse words were the words of the "commoners."

In other words, refusal to use them is classist.

The end.

So if I don't use swear words I become a classist?

That's ridiculous

merely an odd comment, it could take a number of people to adopt the word as a profanity before it would be thought of as one.
Also Cursing is technically wishing harm on some one or unpleasantness, swearing is using a religious term in vein & using profanities is using crass words commonly in reference to an anatomical feature, bodily function or waste ^_^

{edit} it would become profane if a large group of people began to use it as one, especially as a term describing another group of people... for there laziness perhaps.

dsdsdrsf, I'm just addressing the reasons why "curse words" are "curse words."

In Ye Olde England, the lower had a different speech than the upper class. To differentiate themselves from them, the upper class would refuse to use the same language as the commoners.

That's why curse words are curse words.

In other words, my friend duckey, if you were a homeless man yelling "Chair!" in the middle of a crowded ballroom, odds are that yes, it would become a curse word.

Historically speaking, that's often the case.

That's how some swear words started, really. They were considered 'ugly' words by whoever invaded England so commoners had to say it quietly or whatever.
That's what I learned in history anyhow.
But around the house I say 'what the duck', or 'for ducks sake' (sounds stupid but I'm a terrible influence on my best friends sister so I decided to edit my wording. it's also funnier =D) and I was told off for what it 'implied'. For a completely different word I dont know, theoretically it could work but it'd have to be on a huge scale. I think mainly people would be confused. I suppose the one saying the word, like you, could consider it a swear word if you use it consistantly in bad situations.
I honestly don't know, I'm just siding with yes because I do think it could be. But anywho I haven't been on the debate club in a while. So yeah, I need to rethink arguments and the likes.....xD

Not necessarily.
Some swear words weren't even actual words before (unless you are referring to them being derivatives of other languages...)
Others weren't originally considered a good thing, for example, bastard - in both senses it's not meant in a particularly nice way.

Besides, imagine all the fuss when someone tells you to sit down on a chair! Hilarious though it would be, it'd be a bit of a pain if adults constantly started yelling at their children because of that...in which case they'd probably have to change the word for chair...vicious circle here.

words like dang or shoot haven´t become swear words

the word bitch just means a girl dog. a fag is just a cigarette. gay is just the scientific meaning for homosexual. people started using these words in negative ways, for reasons I don't know. And that's when it started to be considered bad. that would most likely happen to the word chair.

PLUS!!! The word Dick was just a name. It still is, used as a name a lot. But if you use it as the "bad word" it's also portrayed as, then they go and bleep it out on t.v. It doesn't make sense, and it DOES still have an english meaning for something non offensive, but is still considered bad in the wrong contents.

Êxactly.

^^ Gay is not the scientific meaning of homosexual.

That would whomp
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yes, did you know because the second world war, hitler was a popular sername? now, you would have eggs thrown at your window for having a name like that.