The Meaning of Cursing

Originally, to curse someone was to speak bad things about person with a hope of causing those bad things to happen to the person. The latin based equivalent term for this is malediction, from the terms male, which means badly, and decire, which means to speak. Benediction and malediction are thus the latin base equivalent terms for blessing and cursing. But not all words we consider curse words actually meet this ast. For example, the f word and the s word refer to bodily processes that humans do in private. If you say these words, you're not wishing evil on anybody. Similarly, if people irreverently say the lord's name,. That's