Expletives (was Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> Not a problem necessarily if we regard terms pertaining to

excrement as

> being
> prone to "emphatic" phonetics. If *k^ = *k and *k = *q, then we are

really

> comparing *(s)kor- with *qerd-. The latter would be a form with the

initial

> velar stop modified to a "harsher" uvular to better reflect the

foul nature

> of
> the word.

Are uvular sounds universally considered harsher than velars?

David