In the course of the 18th century, “ geil ” increasingly became a coarse expression for sexual desire, but it could still be used, for example to criticise, without the speaker breaking a taboo.
It only became a taboo word in the 19th century, an age marked by prudishness, when sexuality was frowned upon.
Since the original neutral meaning of “geil” was no longer known, the fact that the word had previously been used to make euphemistic reference to sexual desire was forgotten.
www.goethe.deTrotzdem konnte es benutzt werden, zum Beispiel um zu kritisieren, ohne dass der Sprecher ein Tabu brach.
Zum Tabuwort wurde es erst im 19. Jahrhundert, einer von Prüderie geprägten Zeit. Sexualität galt als verpönt.
Dadurch, dass die ursprünglich neutrale Bedeutung von geil nicht mehr bekannt war, war auch vergessen, dass das Wort eigentlich verhüllend auf sexuelle Begierde hingewiesen hatte.
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