🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: By today’s standards, people in the Middle Ages had potty mouths. But researchers say the act of swearing has actually changed a lot over the years.
If you opened a school textbook from the 15th century, you might be surprised to see how some familiar actions and parts of the anatomy are described. Though words likewould be considered too crass, or even silly, to educate children with today, in those days they were simply an acceptable part of language.
Are we more sensitive than our medieval counterparts; or were they just less refined? Well, it might not be so simple. Linguists and historians say the meanings behind these words, and the ways we respond to them, have changed a lot over the centuries.Swear words might be used today as an intensifier in language, or to express emotions like anger or even joy. But in the Middle Ages they were used simply to label body parts and actions — albeit not always in the most polite manner.
By the height of the Victorian era, the desire to steer away from anything deemed too sexual or vivid was so strong that the word trouser would have been avoided, or the then-inappropriate. Today, as issues like race have gained more prominence, the highest taboos are afforded to politically incorrect language or racial slurs now unthinkable despite being commonplace just decades ago, Mohr says.language is constantly shifting, the effects of swearing have stayed somewhat consistent.
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