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In their own words, how Americans explain why bad things happen. A global pandemic that has killed millions and disrupted lives and livelihoods around the world. A changing climate that has been linked with powerful hurricanes and raging wildfires. And countless individuals coping with other struggles big and small, personal and societal.
- Shannon Greenwood
Oct 18, 2022 · So, the power does not come from the words themselves. Equally, it is not inherent in the word meanings or sounds: neither euphemisms nor similar sounding words have such a profound effect on us.
Dec 6, 2022 · Swear words are a powerful function of human language —so powerful that we aren’t supposed to say them, at least not in polite company. The right expletives, unleashed at the right moment, can ...
Dec 15, 2016 · During his career at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Jay has recorded and analyzed thousands of people swearing, and he’s come up with two core reasons for why we do it. For one, it ...
- A Taboo Topic
- A Good Golly Gee
- Power and The Profane
Profanity is unnerving and noticeable because it often deals with cultural taboos. Swearing and cursing rise up around topics that make us uncomfortable or that society deems unacceptable. In all cultures, certain subjects — often those associated with religion, social stigmas like illegitimacy, body functions and sexual activity — are off-limits b...
Today, the line between swearing, cursing and obscenity is somewhat blurred, with most people seeing all three falling together under the larger rubric of swear words or profanity. And while a lot of our modern bad words revolve around sex or unmentionable body parts, this is a fairly modern list of things we get nasty about. In the late Middle Age...
Such findings suggest that the use of euphemistic words like Golly which was driven by strong social and religious disapproval of ‘vain’ swearing is no longer necessary. More permissive attitudes and recognition of the social and expressive value of colloquial and slang speech has risen sharply over the course of the 20th century as societal mores ...
Jan 24, 2022 · Swear words are so potent that even innocent vocabulary words are affected through spurious association. For example, the Canadian city Regina makes some people uncomfortable because of its phonetic similarity to “vagina” (Allan and Burridge 2006). Thus, uncensored and euphemistic swear words should have a similar impact on readers ...
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Sep 16, 2016 · In his book, Bergen attempts to explain where the blue streak came from — and what it does to us as people. “Profanity is the type of language we use to communicate our strongest emotions ...
