In his book 'The Dragons of Eden', Carl Sagan tells the story of a chimp that had been taught sign-language, signing to a human, in a moment of annoyance, "You green shit". Swearing -- or at least the mechanism by which it arises -- seems to be older than ourselves. I'm sure every language has its swear words.
DW, Bracknell
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