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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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[–] liquidparasyte@pawb.social 9 points 2 years ago

About fucking time!

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

You're welcome motherfuckers. Been pushing this in corporate for 20 years. Had a CEO come in and tell us we needed to tone it down bc he found himself doing it at home with his kids too much. Ivy pedigree probably never in his life before that period lol

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

No shit

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 7 points 2 years ago

Thank fuck

[–] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

‘Bout fucking time.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

When overdone it tends to just make sentences longer for no fucking reason though.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

fuck yeah

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

There's just a new bunch of taboo words.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

You're just now fuckin' realizing this?

[–] frokie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Well why the fuck not

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

No shit?!

[–] The_Helmet_Stays_On@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

Fucking finally!

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

No it goddamn isn't, fuck you asshole!

/s obviously

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

By Jove!

[–] yuki2501@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Even in other countries you can notice. Now in Mexico we have news commentators saying chingón (a bad word that is used for praise) and "hijo de la chingada" (son of a bitch).

30 years ago saying either would get you banned from TV for life.

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