the ran spelling commission, associate professor of the department of russian language markhi, if iask: i feel strong emotions. let's start with the basics: where did russian swearing come from? there is a traditional version, tatars-mongols, like everything else. we probably won’t go into this too deeply, but in the russian language the sexual sphere was taboo, it was taboo very strongly, for a very long time, these were such sacred words, sacred motifs that were not discussed, it was not customary to talk about it, it was back in the pre-christian era, then with the christianization of russia, this taboo intensified, we got it in our culture... after all, there are analogues of swearing, some taboo zones of the language in other languages? there are many different language taboos, and not only the sexual sphere is tabooed in different cultures, different spheres can be tabooed, well , often sexual, but what else? but well , the anal sphere, for example, in german, these are much stronger curses associated with the other side, so to say, bodily misa, that russian word poop in germa