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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 ...
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Wordtips also looked at how often swear words cropped up in...
- Each U.S. State's Favorite Curse Word, Mapped
Jun 14, 2023 · Swear Words in Ancient Rome. The history of swearing is filled with fascinating twists and turns. But, perhaps surprisingly, obscenity in Latin shares a few striking similarities with swearing today, with both drawing from taboos about sex and excrement. The sexual and cultural norms of ancient Rome, however, were markedly different from ours ...
- Alex Orlando
Feb 22, 2016 · Fucking.’. The philosopher Joel Feinberg remarked that swear words ‘acquire their strong expressive power in virtue of an almost paradoxical tension between powerful taboo and universal readiness to disobey’. And, indeed, both in the UK and in many other cultures, we do much to prevent, censor, and punish swearing.
- Rebecca Roache
Sep 28, 2023 · An important difference between swearing and slurring is that the offensiveness of slurs is not context-dependent in the same way that the offensiveness of swearing is. While there are many contexts in which one can swear inoffensively, slurring oppressed groups is almost always offensive. Almost, but not always.
Oct 11, 2017 · Read the full transcript below: "What makes swear words offensive is that people are ready to be offended by them." "It’s almost as if society as a whole takes a conscious – or actually ...
- Fraser Moore
- Henry Blodget
Feb 25, 2016 · Hello, thank you for this piece, just a couple of quick questions before likely others: How are swearing words context-sensitive?.You don’t seem to acknowledge the fact that swear words have, over and above their semantic content, an expressive function — namely the function of signalling the kind of attitude, mood or “evaluative” point of view of the utterer.
Feb 27, 2017 · By definition, swear words are offensive. If a word, over time, ceases to be offensive, then it falls out of use as a swear word. Offence alone is not enough, though, for we can offend with ...
