A web debate on cursing in private, public and online , part of a series of multiple perspective posts on the NYT called
Room for Debate, has several experts, including Georgetown U. Professor and author of
You just don't understand,
Deborah Tanner, yet no one mentions
George Carlin and his take on the seven words you can't say. Some
claim we've always cursed, while others
claim we curse on the web about as much as we do in real life and
there is data people, on average, swear .3% to .7% of the time and frequency per person has more to do with personality than class.
posted by Berkun
on Apr 13, 2010 -
118 comments
Faen! (SLYT) Will teach you a useful Norwegian swear word. Warning: will offend Finns, who will find their own favorite curse mocked, and annoy Danes, who will find that the dapper hat-wearing, glasses-doffing Norwegian mispronounces
their favorite curse word. (NSFW: Much cursing in English and various Scandinavian languages; brief image of copulating turtles.)
posted by languagehat
on Nov 17, 2008 -
44 comments
The Profane Game. Got a pottymouth? Test your curse word vocabulary with this simple game. You have one minute to enter as many naughty words as you can.
(via)
posted by zardoz
on Jan 29, 2007 -
55 comments
Most of the rhymes kicked therein cannot be quoted in a family publication, but observers gave Mr. Cheney credit for his deceptively laid-back flow. Mr. Leahy was applauded for managing to rhyme the phrases "unethical for certain," "crude oil spurtin'," and "like Halliburton."
posted by xmutex
on Jul 20, 2004 -
15 comments
How to do things with four-letter words. Why do we swear? Or, more importantly, why are swear words "bad" and other words are fine? Angus Kidman's thesus on the semantics of swearing in Australia - and most other English speaking places as well - tries to shed some light.
Possibly NSFW.
posted by Fat Elvis
on Apr 6, 2003 -
21 comments
A
'cussing canoeist' was almost robbed of his right to swear in public. Timothy Boomer yelled the f word close to 75 times in front of a 5 and 2 yo after falling out of his canoe on the Rifle River in Michigan. I damn near fell of my chair laughing!
posted by Why
on Apr 1, 2002 -
12 comments
When I got tired of saying the word
Fuck all the time, I switched over to the word
Fuckity. When my friends pointed out that perhaps
Fuckity was a bit twee, I was in a deep funk, until one day, when I discovered
Roger's Profanisaurus - the definitive thesaurus of all things Scatalogical, Sexual and Rude. Zuffled lately? Gone whitewater wristing? Expand your vocabulary!
Link via
Scott
posted by kristin
on Oct 24, 2001 -
26 comments
