1. The taboos that obscenities are drawn from is sexuality, excretion, religion, and anxieties. Most of the things that are drawn from negative emotion. Religion deals with death and is something that people fear this is why obsceneites are drawn from them.
2. The part of the brain that swearing activates is the primitive parts that control movements and habits, this is known as the basil ganglia. This is the lower part of the brain which inhibits speech and if it is damaged then speech can be damaged as well.
3. Swears are such a powerful part of language because they can be the easiest to says. Emotional tags get stored with swear words in your brain because of the reaction from others when they are said.
4. Euphemisms are the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that might offend or suggest something unpleasant. These are normally used in hospitals to describe death or to dull sexual expressions. These could be more dangerous than swear words because it hides the truth, such as to hide the reality of crimes or issues happening in the world.
5. A double entendre are a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in two ways. The purpose they serve within language is they allow people to interrupt them in their own way and find there own meaning to the phrase.
6. Hip-hop empower groups through language because it leads to short conversation and slang. This circulates through the media and people and culture flows.
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