Why Are Bad Words Bad?
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Marchex Institute study: blog.marchex.com/2013/05/15/ma...
Canada's most vulgar city: www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/...
"Bad" etymology: www.etymonline.com/index.php?t...
"Grawlixes": www.fastcodesign.com/1673017/q...
Mort Walker - The Lexicon of Comicana: www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lexicon-C...
First use of grawlixes: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/...
Slate's Lexicon Valley: "A Brief History of Swearing": www.slate.com/articles/podcast...
1 Kilohertz censor beep: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleep_ce...
Steven Pinker lecture: • Steven Pinker - The St...
Swearing history: www.salon.com/2013/05/11/the_m...
remembering taboo words: citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/...
Swearing in the brain:
blog.scienceinsociety.northwes...
www.howstuffworks.com/swearing...
no words should be banned? bigthink.com/against-the-new-t...
Mythbusters' Swearing Test: • MythBusters - Jamie Sw...
Coprolalia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolalia
Lalochezia: medical-dictionary.thefreedict...
7 dirty words: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_di...
Swearing is changing:
www.thetakeaway.org/story/3056...
www.slate.com/articles/life/th...
Swearing in the future: io9.com/http-0-media-cdn-foolz...
Swearing behaviour on Twitter: www.business2community.com/inf...
McKay Hatch - The No Cussing Club: nocussing.com/
N.W.A. F*ck Tha Police: • Video
POV: You are in prison, and your cell mate introduces himself
Of all the people I could go to prison with, it would be Michael
I love how accurate this comment is
Prison Mike
@@SYJ703 underrated comment
And then they explain the history of swears
Swearing makes up 0.7% of our vocabulary
12 year old COD players: I beg to differ
I fucking beg to fucking differ you fat bitch* is what you meant
RPL Crisis *insert n-word
As a 12 year old cod player I agree
@Kazuhir 007 I know right I'm such a rebel 😱😱😰
@Kazuhir 007 frick omg I said it so loud
bro answering his own 3AM question's💀
And You Liked Ur Own Comment
npc comment@@WhatWouldItBeThough
Nobody cares@@WhatWouldItBeThough
@@zeldaforlife Damn sorry that was 6 Months ago..
@@WhatWouldItBeThough Lol
"Schizo" is definitely on its way to being a regular insult
Yeah and it’s really unfortunate too. Obviously being schizophrenic isn’t a healthy thing at all, but straight up demonizing the existence of schizophrenic people is not helping them in the slightest. It only serves to further isolate and vilify them. It makes me so sad :(
so is trash and mental. This video was made 10 years ago and it's all fulfilling now lol
@@HS-mn6jc In my opinion, it really is rude to refer to someone as simply "Schizo", as in "The schizo over there" or "That guy's a schizo."
@@the711devin4 That's the point of an insult, though.
Elementary school teacher logic:
Shut up= a curse word
Ikr
and dont even get me started on
oh no
not this word
*S T U P I D*
im a thug
woah
dont tell my mom
shell take away my ipad
Someone call Lorrie Dvorak’s mom
Stupid= your going to hell
my 2nd grade teacher sent people to the office for saying "what the" for whatever reason
0.7 % of the everyday spoken language are swear words ?
That doesn't apply if you are playing GTA
A line from Gta 5 xD
"Oh hell no nigga, I ain't fucking with this bitch ass bullshit"
ProPcGamer XD
ProPcGamer lol thats some funny ass fucking shit you silly bitch
Or CoD multiplayer.
XD so true
I learned english as a teen on the internet, and to me curse words have no weight, I curse all the time, it's what I learned from let's plays lol. As opposed to my native language, when I hear a curse word in Spanish I feel a physical reaction, it feels so much more intense, like it has more weight and aggression, since I learned them as a child and I was told not to use them.
May I present to you the minivan known as
Laputa
That is simply from the language difference, and how they are used in sentences, and when they are used.
English is kind of like a native language for me and curse words have no weight to me lol. I use them sm on the Internet to emphasize stuff. It's only irl I don't fucking use them coz many ppl around me wouldn't like that.
@@pythondrink that's their problem. Swear words are 100% made up arbitrary nonsense. Fuck should not be worse than sex. Shit should not be worse than poop. And asshole should not be worse than jerk. They mean the same thing.
@@ashupashu5559 I 100% agree. These words are offensive bcoz we decided they are. But are they actually causing any harm? Nah
9 years ago and he is talking about Ohio before it was a trend, what a legend
What?
Ikr
I live in Ohio
What
@@jacobadams4537Leave.
WHY IS HE CALLING ME VSAUCE OVER AND OVER AGAIN
He's Vsauce
+Heath Mitchell At the beginning of every single one of his videos, he says "Hey, Vsauce! Michael here." He's literally greeting us as "Vsauce."
he means vsauce fans probably
hahahahahahahaha! I get it!
Richard Marksman way to play along friend
Bad words are also bad because youtube will demonitize you
Raining Subliminals it was a joke
@@oofuwu2666 r/woooosh
@@lightningkid8825 he knew, he was probably referring to the video.
I changed my fucking name How about now kid r/whoosh
@@wspann1967 woosh
Vsauce: swearing makes up 0.7% of our vocabulary
The crow i taught to curse:
How was camera quality this good 10 years ago
Bro it was in 2014 not 1914
im not ur bro, bro
@user-wf2xv1kl7q I'm not your bro bro stop calling me bro
@@user-wf2xv1kl7q no one asked u just spawned here to comment smthing useless just like me lmao
It was in 2014, not 1897 lmao
Imagine stubbing ur toe and yelling "DEPRESSED"
This comment is criminally underrated 🤣
Lol
yeah, because the toe didn't get pressed enough.
@@tora6673 hahahaha lol
No because im not gonna yell what i am, am i?
michael, are you in ... prison?
+teddy idon'tknowwhattowrite thats what i was thinking
+teddy idon'tknowwhattowrite yeah
+teddy idon'tknowwhattowrite he is. he was caught yelling "fuck tha police" in the middle of the street
surely not
+teddy idon'tknowwhattowrite I agree
“swear words makes up 0.7 of our vocab”
my friends and all my classes:
His videos are truly timeless
Imagine Vsauce getting demonatized for saying "Bad"
Don't give YT ideas
It is lmao
Yt: 👀
LMAO
Bad you
It took me 4 minutes to notice: Why are you in a prison?
he can get you distracted by his inspiring beautiful voice
Took me 9.
RIGHT!
He stole our hearts. No homo.
Took me the time to scroll down read your comment
I love how Mass is among the least likely to use bad words on a call but also among the least likely to use please and thank you.
Bro guessed the Ohio meme
When I was a kid, 'stupid' was a swear word to my mom
Same here, at my preschool I remember one of my friends got time out for saying “stupid”.
Even idiot
The word "freak" was also considered a bad word.
Same thing. "Heck" too.
For me say god was a swear word
“Mothertrucker dude, that hurt like a buttcheek on a stick.”
i love that
@@justanothervscogirl6713 same
Watch yo profanity
Watch yo profanity
@@ZuMii_Idled your response is better than the actual comment XD
"Hey, Vsauce, Michael here! This is the most secure prison in the world, *or is it?"*
Vsauce:swearing makes up 0.7% of our vocabular
Call Of Duty:you didn’t have to cut me off
“Badder words “
I think my English teacher just had a heart attack .
She did! Because she saw me.
Worse*
ChOKe r/wooosh
??'badder/est' 'gooder/est' etc are used to accentuate that there is something 'less good/bad', especially on the web, it's not a big deal
no. I know , but he said “ badder “ words instead of worse words and I made a joke of how my English teacher had a heart attack when she saw that he used badder and not worse .
imagine saying "oh defecate I forgot my homework"
😂
@@Agony.. 😂😂😂😂
I already do that
@Michael Ogundele defecate*
Lmao
why is this man answering all life’s questions
Him: "Why are bad words bad"
My Brain: Cause they are bad words 🗣️🔥🔥🗿
Again, why he is filming it from a prison cell?
who said that he is filming from a prison cell...?
Dorakos because they're bad words
don't get me involved here... please...
Why do you have satan as your profile picture..(Teemo)...
...
But who tf looked at the middle finger and said," Damn...That shit offensive"
@@noeschaeffer2167 Oh thanks for educating me
@Questa Semplice Animazione thank you for educating me
@@noeschaeffer2167 lol that’s not even true.
@Astro Journey what are you basing that accusation on? Can you show me the source proving me wrong?
I don’t mean to be mean I am lowkey interested in whether it’s true that it’s not true
@@noeschaeffer2167 literally just look up the origins of the middle finger. The whole picking your nose thing was a myth and it doesn’t even really make sense
I used this video for my essay. It turned out about 5000 characters. I am very grateful to Michael, his videos are very interesting and useful.
Are you saying you plagiarised this video?
@@apokailyptic2899yes
Human: emits sound*
Other human: big sad
Third human: (looking at the first human) you cannot say that anymore.
@@jackdeavers1198 human apollogizes to everyone on the big rock the next day
"Even the word bad, can be a bad word."
CZcams: _write that down_ *_write that down_*
Charles!
@@kami3119 yea?
AnonymousCheesePie37 💀😂😂
Charles the french 😂😂
Found a charles fan here, never thought I would.
Someone share the link to his channel, he is really awesome
CZcams: "You can't make an educational video and be demonetized"
V-sauce: "Observe"
Zeo, you know what’s scary, the fact that the words he said that will be used more often 2 of them are being used more and more frequently, depressed and metal and words to describe a person who is unstable, therefore making them “swear words”.
Challenge accepted
Have u ever seen Cody's lab, he makes educational vidios in cemestry and most of his vids get demonetized
Sry im not that good at English
@TheWeirdSide Of thE internet but thank u
Don't say bad words! It got Michael in prison 😢
I just started watching these videos again, I didn't realize how long it's been since these videos were posted, time flies by!
"historically bad words came from things we were afraid of"
*a s s*
Shit?
Hm i guess that makes sense
@@natapatamepatata Well, let me ask you this, the word 'ass' refers to the bottom of the human body but, let me ask you this, where does the 'shit' come from? Now, you might answer the 'ass' but we must first ask, what is the 'ass'? Well, the 'ass refers to the bottom of the human body but, let...
im the 69 like this epic
In Africa ass is a good word
F*ck 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
depressed sure hasnt become a swear word, now its more of a bragging tool.
Children, the source of everything
@@encoder4d801 billie eilish, the source of children
....wait what
@@pranavlimaye lmao cursed
@@terrarianangel8274 ayyy I play Terraria too
@@pranavlimaye fun game
this will forever be my favorite youtube channel ever
This guy hasn't aged a day
Bad Words: *exists
Toxic Kids:
*"It's free real estate"*
I never swear from 1 year ago but now I often swear, I dont like swearing though. I'll try to lower it
nauka YOU JUST UNRAVELED UR DEEPEST DARKEST SECRET--
(This is a joke)
DraGoLinkz lmao so true especially in Fortnite
I'm swearing since 1st grade lmao
I memorized the 100 digits of pi in 4 days yay
Anyone else on a Vsauce watching spree?
+Doge Wow yasssss
Kinda midway
+Doge Wow yes
+Doge Wow yes
yes lol
Those "bad" words prediction were on point
Michael: Swear words make up 0.7% of our vocabulary.
COD players: That is only marginably right if we dont include slurs
Fun fact:
In Russia there's a saying that translates to:
"A speech/talk without swearing is an essay."
Blyat.
lol
Щуку я, щуку я, щуку я поймала.
Девица красная, уху я варила.
Уху я, уху я, уху я варила.
Shuku ya, shuku ya, shuku ya poymala
Devisha krasnaya, uhu ya varila
Uhu ya, uhu ya varila
@@new-gacha-riddles-jp ??
@@nursmalik6024
It translates to: I cooked fish stew
Misheard as: Cooked near the dick or Ooh, I cooked a dick.
bad words make up 99.99999999 percent of an irish mans vocabulary
Raghu Durina I tell ya it fecking is us lad ur las it fecking is
Hah ha hah 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☺️🤣
This is confirmed by the Jacksepticeye youtube channel.
Ya lol 😂
It fecking is ya shoiter, ya cent found the fecking gem! Fecking give it to me shoit cent!
God damn, 10 years have passed and I see NOTHING DIFFERENT on his vids other than the quality. Music and Soundtracks, Character, Style and Humor. Now that's what I call consistency.
it’s 2024 and i can confirm that i use mental as in insult/ curse as michael predicted 😭
Age is now the new swear word
“Boomer”
dont forget zoomer :D
*GASP* YOU SAID THE B WORD
Ok boomer
Its months old now but it became popular
oof
Gordon Ramsay: *allow me to introduce myself*
How much sh!t have you cooked today
FUCK OFF YOU FUCKING DONKEY
Let the knife do the work.
*Knife snap*
Gordon Ramsay : *F*ck*
It's fucking raw!
What the fuck did you do
Nine years later and cod lobbies still haven’t learned from this😂
You just know Michael had fun making this video.
For all you wondering, he's in prison for saying bad words.
He bacc
Probably because he needed to shave and regrow his beard
@@3vorp this video was in 2013 ffs
@@amartyaasengupta8187 gta 5 came out in 2013 one of the most vulgar games huh weird
Lmao
Lol
I was hoping the intro would be something like, “What’s up b****! Michael here!”
LOL
LOL
LOL
LOL
LOL
You know how old your camera is 10 years to 2024 💀
Prison is just a place we go in our mind.
"the 'F' word and the 'S' word these 10 words makeup about 0.7% of the average"
6th graders: *chuckles*
LMAO
7th and 8th graders you mean, 6th graders weren't that bad but as a 7th grader I can 100% confirm that 25% of my language are curses
As someone who has been in 6th grade I can confirm this information
I didn’t swear tho I just know people who did
Lol
@@LegoCityFilms same..
The Ohio memes finally make sense
Why are watching this 9 yrs later
Why are you
why am i
why are we
why is God
I watched this when I was seven, six years ago. It's great to come back to this guy's channel after so long.
Pov your in jungle and hear this "hey vsause micael here im going to hunt you down"
verified
Hey Mike VS here, will you survive longer than the last one?
"the 'F' word and the 'S' word these 10 words makeup about 0.7% of the average"
Gordon Ramsay: don't underestimate my power
Tommyinnit: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you
Those results are inaccurate, gordon ramsay makes up 95% of that
Pewds: to hold your defecation motu patlu wtf supposed to mean
donkey
@@rodion9566 donut
The words are just going through a phase, they'll calm down soon.
I never calmed down, i doubt they will
It would have been really funny if you said phrase
500th likee
SEND ME HATE ON MY VIDEOS>>
🤣
Vsauce: In the future, depressed would become a bad word
School: I'm 4 parallel universes ahead of everyone else
Only in Ohio?
Grawlix sounds like it could be a pokemon.
I am offended
Yeah, if Growlithe and Onix had babies xD
a fire type Onyx would be fucking badass lol
Grawlix used "FUCK YOU BITCH"
It's super effective, enemy is suicidal!
That could replace Arcanine
"Why are bad words bad?"
me, an intellectual: because they're not nIcE
Nicen't words
Bad'nt words
ok boomer
Mark MRGAMEZ You are the boomer for using an ancient “insult”
Mark MRGAMEZ Ok “Sound effect used for explosions in comics and movies” er
Finally an answer to the question I’ve had recently
Ironic that "Bad" can be considered bad lol
0.7% of daily speaking is constituted of bad words.
Australians: **Laughing profusely**
Jamaicans: **laughing incoherently in words most people haven't heard of**
that shit is so fucking correct, your a smart little bitch now arent ya
ayy my man lazarbeam
@@novemberzzda1st232 Ahhhh now I get why you said lazarbeam, you bloody legend....
@@mikeymladi9279 ye my guy
Why are *bad* words *bad*
CZcams: *demonetised*
Riley M i hope one day demonetised also becomes a bad word😂
P.S. CZcams would have to censor itself!!!
*steps on lego barefoot*
DEMONETIZED!!!
Riley M you edited it and you still spelled demonetized wrong
Chill out Mr(s) Proud-To-Spell-With-Zs-Instead-Of-Ss, demonetised is ONE correct spelling - the UKE spelling.
You too Riley M
I live in Washington, and I dis-confirm this video as everyday I hear 1,000s of swears, me included.
Aye, another epic video! Thanks man
😮😮
"0.7% of the daily vocabulary"
10 year olds on Xbox Live:
"You underestimate my power!"
hahhahahahahHAhahahhahahHhshahhHHAHAHJGHULIEJKRFNERFJKHERBFEJRKBHERHJGB I PLAY ONLINE PS
3....
Mya Gaming Kat what
You $^^$ underestimate my $&&$#&& power you little #&& &#& *$*&##% #&&$
Copied
@@jodofly1158 actually I thought of this right when Michael said it in the video, I did see there was a *similar* joke but I still decided to post mine, have a good day sir.
What's he doing in a prison cell?
+Max Power He got caught swearing at Saudi Arabian airport security, which then gave him inspiration to make this video. While in prison.
+Jack Sparrow WHAT
In Saudi Arabia Its Forbidden To Swear In The Country?!
+•• Louisianna •• no he is just dumb
+Hazem Khaled Omg a profile picture twin!
Finally my prayers have been answered
More like 70% now.
Imagine Vsauce is your dad and you ask why bad words are bad and then he just says everything from this video
I mean he has a daughter, so...
This is Vsauces daughter pov colorized 2013 she was just wearing a gopro
*ask
@@creationsfromhell8604 thanks for the correction grammar nazi
“And as always, thanks for watching,”
Vsauce: swearing makes up 0.7% of our vocabulary
Gordon Ramsey: those are rookie numbers
Lmao underrated comment I couldn’t stop laughing
Lol
ROOOOOKIE NUMBERS
no no no british people in general
Samuel L. Jackson: “Are you challenging me?”
Legalize bad words
Legalize nuclear bomb
This aged like fine wine. A reddit user was banned recently for the use of the word "female" in his title.
Me: *Stubs my toe*
Also me: “Ahhhhh DEFECATEEE!!!!!!”
Lol
It’s almost 2:30am. My lady and baby are sleeping, and I just laughed out loud for 10 seconds straight.
@@patrickmolone938 wtf
oh *sexual intercourse*
Wow...
He in jail cause he swore on my server.
Ure Christian mine craft server
No hecks no fricks no double decker dicks
@@MsMexicandude **AUTO-BAN**
No he swore on my server
You're Christian Minecraft server?
I love the the detail on the please and thank you chart they had Mr. Flanders as the polite states and homer as the rude states
This is by far the best video I've found regarding the education of swearing with practical applications. Personally, I love swearing with intention or when injury occurs. Now that I have babies, I was concerned about the implications of my own swear use and noticed most videos educate while simultaneously shaming those who choose differently from them. They claim with such conviction that if you swear it's primarily because you are unintelligent or other derogatory labels which I find more offensive than swearing in and of itself.
Me explaining to my mom why I cursed when I stubbed my toe:
Underrated
Hahah
Lol
Title: why is bad words bad?
Me: i just think its bad cuz its called bad word lol
@Jaster Thanks for the compliment
I'll say a REAL bad word:
Terrible.
I'll say one to
Crap
Texan
h*ck fr*ck
sorry for swearing
+Herp Tim Frick isn't a bad word or
Husky2.0 he knows he's just kidding
This is the first Vsauce video i watched.
And it was already 10 years old.
U know what, would love to hear backstory of 1 kz beep.
Television.
@@Jovian_Man you think that there is specific reason why they chose this frequency? Or it doesnt have any real meaning?
No one:
Kindergarteners:
“Oooooooh you said a bad word”
“Oooooh I’m telling the teacher you said bad”
Abraham Jin
You said it too, am telling
He Is Weird n-no I promise I’ll give you food tomorrow during break
Abraham Jin
What food?
He Is Weird uhhh uhhhh how bout some uhhhhhh lunchables
Abraham Jin
Seems legit, deal
Imagine stepping on legos and saying "Ah dung, I stepped on legos, it hurts, ah defecation"
Oh poop i stepped on a lego
I stepped on this having sex with lego
Tsuki um WHAT
@@towelofmadness3078 he meant "fucking" Lego
I say "Oh my G0Z"
Get it? G0Z?
G0Z is a roblox myth ;-;
I'm a fam of G0Z and *f l a m i n g o*
Vsauce is the most out of context.
Funny.
Not human but human.
And informational man in this universe
Man answered all of the kids questions
he would lowkey be the best lawyer
Yea the best lawyer in the principals office 😂
Fr he would
So true tho
Exactlyyyyy
Opens every case with Hey vsuace Michael here. My client is innocent.
"Swear words often came from things we were afraid of"
Me: *looks at my shit and screams in terror*
does that mean pornography is a type of horror film?
@@Aaron-kk4xy it isn't.
Or is it?
*Vsauce music plays*
@@Aaron-kk4xy in the 70’s version of The Wickerman, (a horror film rated 18 for the time) the sex isn’t shown (only heard from another room) but the couple isn’t married.
LMAO
@Mr. Pokhrel vsauce music plays
when u call customer services u will hear this " to ensure quality service your call may be monitored or recorded"they are not kidding
-Michael in prison
I love in his videos when he gets to the main point that nice jazzy music starts to play in the background lol
0:00
when you’re trying to sleep but your brother keeps bothering you in the middle of the night
[Your profile picture]
Oh Bowser, what have you done? You should have given him the ball...
Dylan hahahahajhaahahshss
*H E Y V S A U C E M I C H E A L H E R E*
Or sister
Macaroon_Nuggets “oh my bad sir”
Bad words in tha future: Simp
simp
@@hellothere1600 Just wait until 2021 when CZcams starts age-restricting comments, yours will be the first one on the list lmao
@@SleepyPie lol
Tiktok
@@Andi-gl9io oh shut up
"Ohio" 💀
Michael said swears and got sent to prison