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Great idea about coarsening language here as a form of bot and advertising deflection, Adam.
May Eye add the suggestion that in addition to Talk Like A Pirate Day we spread Swear Like A Sailor Days throughout the calendar?
#SwearWords, #SwearLikeASailor, #TuckersBalls
#Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim | The Guardian, by David Batty
#Swearwords increasingly used for emphasis and to build social bonds, rather than to insult, say academics
The Guardian · Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim
How are all these idiots allowed on the road? 
Swearing should be taught in driving school. 
A lesser-known benefit of OCR is all the accidental swearing
@sesquiotic on the mistaken old fucks at The New York Times:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2019/05/26/the-mistaken-old-fucks-at-the-new-york-times/
Strong LanguageThe mistaken old fucks at The New York TimesThe New York Times has a replete searchable archive. Every issue is there. But every issue from before 1996 has been OCRed (has had optical character recognition performed on it) and in general has…
"They are a people of contradictions, and their swearing is no different." @korystamper looks at common Finnish swearwords:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/the-wide-wide-world-of-fucks-finland/
Strong LanguageThe Wide, Wide World of Fucks: FinlandLanguage, linguists will tell you, doesn’t exist in a hermetically sealed vacuum: it has speakers, and those speakers exist within a particular time, place, and context. That means that the languag…
In our very first post, back in December 2014, @sesquiotic explored the phonology of cusswords:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/phonology-of-cusswords-some-initial-observations/
Strong LanguagePhonology of cusswords: some initial observationsShit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. Recognize that list? It’s George Carlin’s famous “seven words you can’t say on television.” Here’s that same set rendered in broad IPA tr…
Unsurprisingly, this headline did not make it into the print edition. If you expand the acronym it scans perfectly. I apologize in advance for the earworm.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/27/opinion/consultants-bus-go-wtf
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@gmusser Jumalauta, helvetin perkele 
It seems that Finnish wasn’t included in the article 
#swearwords #linguistics
Nice to see a #linguist like Lev-Ari given space on #NPR.
NPRSwear words across languages may have more in common than previously thought
"Not all sounds are equally suitable for profanity," say the authors of this new study of #swearwords in seven different languages. Expletives tend not to have sounds such as 'l', 'r', 'w', and 'y' (so-called approximants). The authors get extra points for giving examples from Huttese, Xenexian, and Caprican. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-022-02202-0 #linguistics
SpringerLinkThe sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity? - Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewWhy do swear words sound the way they do? Swear words are often thought to have sounds that render them especially fit for purpose, facilitating the expression of emotion and attitude. To date, however, there has been no systematic cross-linguistic investigation of phonetic patterns in profanity. In an initial, pilot study we explored statistical regularities in the sounds of swear words across a range of typologically distant languages. The best candidate for a cross-linguistic phonemic pattern in profanity was the absence of approximants (sonorous sounds like l, r, w and y). In Study 1, native speakers of various languages (Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Spanish; N = 215) judged foreign words less likely to be swear words if they contained an approximant. In Study 2 we found that sanitized versions of English swear words – like darn instead of damn – contain significantly more approximants than the original swear words. Our findings reveal that not all sounds are equally suitable for profanity, and demonstrate that sound symbolism – wherein certain sounds are intrinsically associated with certain meanings – is more pervasive than has previously been appreciated, extending beyond denoting single concepts to serving pragmatic functions.