Swear words in different languages have one thing in common
What’s in a swear? The world’s filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But there’s something else swears across the world’s languages have in common. They’re all missing the more melodic consonant sounds you’re more likely to hear in a lullaby than in a colorful reaction to a stubbed toe.
There was one swearing similarity across languages For their first study, they recruited speakers of Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean and Russian and asked them to list their languages’ most vulgar and filthy words. They analyzed those words and compared them to “control words” – that is, neutral words that aren’t considered swears in each language – and broke down their consonant sounds.
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