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Swearwords increasingly used for emphasis and to build social bonds, rather than to insult, say academics

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Fuck, I sure as shit hope so.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I still fucking hate that some places require you to censor swear words in comments.

This creates a shitty situation where you have to play a fucking guessing game, where you try to guess if your comment gets removed by mods

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

IKR, so fucking dumb

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I would have gone with "shit, I sure as fuck hope so", but you do you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

If I can’t swear and smoke I’m fucked.