What makes a bad word bad?

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2-01-2012 @ 2:51PM

Pyromelter said...

Dwarves, traditionally, will insult their enemies.

"I spit upon your grave"
"Go kiss an orc"
"A plague upon the stiff neck of elves"

-all possible translations for Gimili's Dwarven language insult of Haldir in the Fellowship of the Rings movie.

These insults in middle earth would be akin to "Go f*** yourself" or "Die you wimpy d***head/d*****bag."

Also, if you ever watched Firefly, they cursed, and I mean cursed cursed, ALL the time... they just did it in Chinese so it was never bleeped on American television. Okay they're not dwarves, but one would expect swashbuckling adventurers to use colorful language, especially if they are from a colorful race like a dwarf. The only exceptions I could possibly think of are paladins and priests, who might in an RP take a vow to not swear.

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