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Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim (www.theguardian.com)

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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] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Just means there will be new swear words

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they're shit - pissbaby, chucklefuck, all that other saccharine bullshit. Just call a cunt a cunt and be done with it. I know it's offensive to women's wonderful genitals but it's so percussive.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

As if the women who complain about the word cunt have never used dick or dickhead as an insult.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Well it'll be awhile before the six letter f-word or the r word are allowed again