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The "clean" ones are deliberate distortions of the real ones, and show that all people need ways to express extreme emotion through eruptive words, even if the words are phonetically transformed.

Folks -- I have to catch a plane! Thanks for all of your questions!

Your mouth only has amylase, which breaks down sugars. To break down the meat you need pepsin, which it would only get in the stomach. So I suspect the pork will just rot in your mouth and hurt you. I'm sorry!

Some languages focus on religion in cursing (Canadian French), some on body things (German), some just magnify certain abusive words as especially "potent" (Japanese). A good book on this is Benjamin Bergen's WHAT THE F.

Hard to say -- that would take major imagination. More groups, definitely -- maybe class, maybe issues of disability. But beyond the groups, wow, who knows. Maybe the impending end of the planet as we know it?