MetaFilter posts tagged with fourletterwords

Calling all Languagehats!

five fresh fish — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:50:32 -0800

Four letter words. Mapped alphabetically to three-space, that is (ie. the 3space axes are the second, third, and fourth letters.) Interesting to see which initial letters tend to map to verbs, which to nouns, and suchlike. A nice example of data visualization.

How to do things with four-letter words.

Fat Elvis — Sun, 06 Apr 2003 15:56:51 -0800

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.

aj100 — Mon, 02 Jul 2001 10:05:24 -0800

You Stupid #@$! In England, children are learning how to swear. What the #@%&? Aren't they learning enough of this #@&! on the street? I believe that the standards for streets smarts have really slipped over the years. Children should be learning their four letter words at the same place they learn about sex, on the street!