"This is not about encouraging rudeness or bad behaviour, but rather celebrating diversity and just acknowledging that swearing is, for a lot of people, a day-to-day part of life"
Linguists at University of Sheffield study regional insults and swear words: www.theguardian.com/science/2026... 🐦🐦
youtu.be/x80h_JiOTZs?...
In which the Gray Lady prints an unexpurgated quote and also demurely defaults to “the F-word.” cc @stronglang.bsky.social (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
Counterpoint: DO watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on
Screenshot of Elmo next to his pet's fishbowl in Elmo's World. The subtitles say "We. Dorothy's been thinking abou and down to what’s her daughter."
four birds in a cartoon from Sesame Street, with the caption reading "Oh, shit"
Another Sesame Street cartoon saying "Oh shit"
Screenshot of Big Bird in Hooper’s Store with live human Alan and a flying red bird. The subtitles read: "Time for the birth of terror. Me"
Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad
FT Correction: Researcher Brené Brown was misquoted in an interview published on April 6. She described herself as “solidly in my fuck it era” rather than “solidly in my fucking era”.
Within you there are two eras. www.ft.com/content/5269...
A rigatoni on a phone, holding a coiled handset wired to a Touch-Tone phone – yes, a rigatoni – saying, "Fusilli, you crazy bastard, how are you?"
Crazy bastard has been a term of grudging approbation since the publication of the greatest New Yorker cartoon of all time
One of the commenters has been so kind as to supply a Quebec French translation:
the Fuckin’ Strait => le tabarnac de détroit
crazy bastards => fous furieux
from www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
Just so much for a linguist to unpack here: the self-conscious closing apostrophe on Fuckin’; the capitalization of Fuckin’ and Hell but not of other words such as bastards; the use of "crazy bastards" as (apparently) a term of abuse rather than, as it often would be, grudging approbation.
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i did not make this up. this is an actual screenshot, from right now.
Anyone know of a Duolingo alternative that includes the swears? cc @stronglang.bsky.social
A painting of a bird next to the words "may I be the first to say fuck you"
FTA: @mashedradish.bsky.social writes about the death of Cleopatra—bitten by an asp or just a bit of ass? stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/a...
When I first saw that usage in a book I couldn't figure out what they heck they were about. It took a bit of time to realize it intended "girl" with a particular society accent, and thus had a "hard g." Still makes me think of hair product, even when I know better.
"He wanted to invade a European Union country not long ago, Greenland...and now he needs us. Frankly he can go fuck himself."
I'm Gen-X. I'm positive I used the R-word a lot, definitely while growing up and almost certainly as an adult.
When people spoke up about how offensive it was, I dropped it.
I have zero sympathy for people who whine about not being able to say it anymore. It's not a real loss.
Here's one on a topic I was talking about on radio not so long ago for @stronglang.bsky.social : This rough pub in Aberdeen, and in the video there are numerous viva voce "fuck" "fucker" "fuckin" but it censors out (with a little horn sound) the one instance of "cunt" www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZwi...
Image from the opening credits of the film Crimes of Passion: Director of Photography_____ DICK BUSH Text is white, then red, on black background.
Crimes of Passion (dir. Ken Russell, 1984)
Your happy reminder that the excellent @susiedentwords.bsky.social made a series of short videos about the history of swear words, and you can watch them here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L77g...
Language evolution in action!
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P00Ps everywhere for those with eyes to see
For those who were listening: here’s the high-school classmate who liked the word. Specifically, as he indicated in the grad yearbook, his favourite expression was “You silly cunt!” (said with a drawn-out intonation rising through “you silly” and falling sharply on “cunt”)
Gary Thoms and E. Jamieson guest in to talk about why anycunt would use "anycunt" and why everycunt should understand it stronglang.wordpress.com/2018/12/18/i...
