Vulgar words or vulgarisms

Vulgar words are the lowest social class of words. They are the simple, clear words of uneducated people for body parts and sex and bathroom terms. Careful speakers never use vulgar words in formal situations, in the classroom, in the office, or in formal written work.

A vulgarism is a word or an expression that is coarse and offensive and is not to be used in speech. Vulgar words belong to non-standard English. The term 'vulgarism' is rather ambiguous as it is defined differently in different dictionaries. Using vulgar language is called swearing or cursing.

A listener may find some slang and vulgar words offensive. They make him or her feel insulted. This can happen even if the speaker did not intend it.

Prof. Galperin suggests that it should be applied to 2 groups of words:

1. Expletives, or swear words, which are of an abusive character, like bloody, to hell, son of bitch, etc. The function of expletives is almost the same as that of interjections that is to express strong emotions, mainly annoyance, anger and the like.

2. Obscene words, which are not to be used in any kind of speech. They are not fixed in common dictionaries. They are known as "four-letter" words.

Vulgarisms are used in colloquial speech and in the style of emotive prose for speech characteristics. They sometimes appear in euphemistic spelling. In present day literature these words are spelled fully.

Vulgar words are the lowest social class of words. They are the simple, clear words of uneducated people. Careful speakers never use vulgar words in formal situations, in the classroom, in the office, or in written work.

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