The Importance of Swearing in English

In English, it's basically like bodily functions and sex on the profane side of things. And then sacred. I know that in one of my college courses, we were reading some Zuni stories that they have words that don't actually even have a semantic meaning that get used for that function. In Japanese, you have some of the same kinds of things that you have in English, but you also have the word for beast,. You can have that angle on it, that it's more kind of the separation between the animal world and the civilized human world.