#cursewords — Public Fediverse posts
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How to curse like a Quebecois. I heard a lot of these in Nouveau Brunswick, aussi https://blog.gymglish.com/2025/03/14/guide-quebec-insults-curse-words #french #CurseWords #quebecois
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Today's curse-adjective is "butts". As in "My condo's property management company is butts." #HOA #condo #cursewords
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When I first heard the phrase "what the actual fuck", it sounded strange and nonsensical to me, but now that I realize it, plain old "what the fuck" is rather strange and nonsensical too. I guess I'm just more used to that one. But really, what does that even mean? It's clearly not meant to be literally parsed.
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> ... The New York Times, for example, identified a best-seller by the philosopher Harry Frankfurt as On Bull****.
... On the whole, the acceptability of taboo words is only loosely tied to the acceptability of what they refer to, but, in the case of taboo terms for effluvia, the correlation is fairly good.https://newrepublic.com/article/63921/what-the-f
The comment about Pinker's "confident tone" focussed my attention on the appearance of #HarryFrankfurt's #OnBullshit in his essay on #TabooWords #CurseWords
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CW: Language, vulgarity
"Go fuck yourself" isn't really the insult people seem to think it is. 🤔
Um, thank you for the suggestion? Maybe later? I'm not really in the mood right now.
Or no time. I've got errands.
Or gee thanks. I was planning to later. Have you got any tissue?
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CW: Language, vulgarity
How much is "as fuck"? Can it ever be more than fuck? Can it ever be less than fuck? Is fuck Metric or Imperial?
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I see people self-censoring when writing in chatrooms. The person may censor curse words. I could see this with harsher words, but they will #censor words like "ass". Dude, we are not in the second or third grade. We're all adults; you can write out the word "ass". #SelfCensorship #CurseWords
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#cursewords is a #crossword solving interface.
cursewords provides a #TUI (#terminal user interface) for playing crosswords. curseword supports the popular .puz file format for loading puzzles. cursewords keeps track of the solve time, provides hints for just the current columns/rows, can find errors, and can fill in difficult entries at a keypress.
Website 🔗️: https://github.com/thisisparker/cursewords