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   Why is it all right to say BOVINE FECES bu not all right to say BULL XXXX ?  All four words are found in current dictionaries.
   Just askin.

Because the Normans who invaded England hundreds of years ago deemed the language of the native Saxons who they conquered to be vulgar, and nobody has ever seen fit to call them on that bull****.

Originally it was pronounced "sheet" - a cloth used to cover the animal during cold weather.  Too often during hard times the animal was eaten and the cloth used as a table cloth instead.  Being covered in bull sheet was an endearing term of prosperity and good times.  Like gay used to mean happy.  They couldn't pronounce it right.

makes complete sence

if ones english

for instance

One can say--------- fornification under consent of the king .    Which is wrong but the wording acceptable.

but one better not abbreviate it.

What I find interesting is that words that are considered "bad" in one country are perfectly acceptable in another.

I sometimes wonder if we as Christians go to unnecessary lengths to avoid "bad" words, and how doing this can actually make us appear "holier than thou" to others at times.

The concern with "bad words" seems to stem from Jesus commanding us not to swear, but in the whole context, he was actually talking about making promises and oaths, not using bad words.


However, I can understand the need to refrain from lacing our daily language with unnecessary words, i.e. "cuss words", so as not to set a bad example.

QuoteLet no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. ~ Ephesians 4:29

"Bad words" are definitely covered by this verse.

Is "bad" a bad word?

Quote from: zoonance on Fri Jan 15, 2010 - 17:33:21
Originally it was pronounced "sheet" - a cloth used to cover the animal during cold weather.  Too often during hard times the animal was eaten and the cloth used as a table cloth instead.  Being covered in bull sheet was an endearing term of prosperity and good times.  Like gay used to mean happy.  They couldn't pronounce it right.

Just in case anybody believed me.  I made all this up.

Sounded like balderdash to me.

I thought it sounded like a bunch of bullsheet when I read it. :)

Actually I saw late last year that a clothing company named "French Connection" has merged with a clothing company in the United Kingdom and the new name will be F C U K. I AM NOT KIDDING.  See http://www.frenchconnection.com/

Ben

I saw FCUK signs all over the place in either Gatwick or Heathrow back in 2000 when we on the way to Ireland.

Quote from: Nevertheless on Sun Jan 17, 2010 - 22:40:06

QuoteLet no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. ~ Ephesians 4:29

"Bad words" are definitely covered by this verse.

AMEN
every where  we are confronted by how undeserving and sinful we honestly are..

even our secret  thoughts prove how sinful we are.

Matthew 15:19
19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.


Matthew 5:28
28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

The S word is supposedly an acronym for Ship High In Transit. Stinking crates of cargo to be loaded on ships were marked with the letters.

Actually, S. H. I. T. stands for Sure, Honest, Intelligent Theologians.  So when people graduate from bible college and seminaries, they have considered it prudent to not use S.H.I.T, but other more innocuous letters, such as Ddiv, etc..  Kind of like Syndrome in The Incredibles when he was asked if the big S stood for Sitter.  S was better than BS for baby sitter, obviously.