#profanity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #profanity, aggregated by home.social.
-
#Ukraine #power #incompetence #profanity #state
They write about the Middle Ages, about archaism, with these soothsayers, sorcerers and wizards. And they justify this by the desire to protect themselves from all those around them - "dangerous" for the functionary and his scope of power, by hiring "disinterested", "not a competitor", "someone who helps"... -
What kind of profanity is this?
Regular readers will be familiar with Strong Language, a group blog about swearing that I co-founded with James Harbeck in 2014. If you’re interested in swearing as a linguistic or cultural phenomenon, I recommend bookmarking or subscribing to it.
New posts by our excellent contributors are less frequent now, but that makes it easier to catch up if you haven’t visited before or feel like browsing the archives. The blog has over 400 posts: fascinating and colourful explorations of profanity for readers not averse to such material.
I also contribute to Strong Language now and then, and this post on Sentence first introduces the last few that I wrote. What follows below is not very sweary – there’s one reference to a strong swear – but if this type of language freaks you out like it does Ned Flanders, or just plain doesn’t interest you, you may prefer to bail out here.
From “Be-bop-a-Lisa” in Simpsons Comics no. 6 (1994). Script & pencils: Bill Morrison; Inks: Tim Bavington; Colours: Cindy Vance. Editor: Steve Vance
I’m interested in how people refer to swearing: as bad language, explicit language, dirty language, adult language, and so on. The adjectives form an intriguing set. ‘Strong bad mature filthy language’ examines the patterns that emerge and explains why I proposed Strong Language as the name for the blog.
The title of the present post, you may have twigged, alludes to Amy Winehouse and her song ‘Me & Mr Jones’, which contains a line I borrowed more directly for ‘What kind of “fuckery” is this?’. The post delves into that word’s meanings and use, originally literal but now usually (and variously) figurative.
Also in a pop-cultural vein, John Boorman’s 1987 drama film Hope and Glory has a scene that depicts swearing as a rite of passage for a group of boys in London during World War II. My short post puts the scene in context and discusses its effects.
Most recently, I wrote about a remarkably successful euphemism in ‘Another freaking f-word’. This use of freaking first appeared in 1928, as far as we know, so its centenary is just around the corner. In the post I look at why and where it has become so freaking popular.
#blogging #etymology #language #linguistics #popCulture #pragmatics #profanity #slang #strongLanguage #swearing #usage #words -
Roblox Rolls Out AI-Powered Real-Time Rephrasing Of Profanity Within Chat
-
Tail end of an actual exchange with my partner.
P: Vance lectured the US athletes after he got booed.
M: Of course.
P: They didn't boo you, you idiot - they're not stupid. The rest of the world did.
M: Because you fucking deserved it.
P: Ya, you deserved it.
M: And stop wearing eyeliner!
P: Ecch... Vance is creepy.
M: I'm only surprised that he hasn't been publicly accused of diddling children yet.
P: Yet. Vance isn't in the Epstein files, is he?
M: His couch is.
#USPol #Vance #JDVance #profanity #creep #creepy #FBomb #EpsteinFiles #couch #CouchFucker #pedophile #Chesterfield #Ottoman #Olypmics
-
#1girl #:q #absurdres #animal_ear_fluff #animal_ears #arrow_(symbol) #bad_id #bad_pixiv_id #bottomless #breasts #choker #clothes_writing #collarbone #colored_pubic_hair #commentary #crop_top #crop_top_overhang #ears_through_headwear #fate/extra #fate/grand_order #fate_(series) #female_pubic_hair #fox_ears #fox_girl #fox_tail #fuck-me_clothes #fuck-me_shirt #hat #highres #large_breasts #licking_lips #naughty_face #pink_hair #pink_pubic_hair #profanity #pubic_hair #pussy #solo #sparse_pubic_hair #sun_hat #tail #tamamo_no_mae_(fate) #tamamo_no_mae_(swimsuit_lancer)_(fate) #thick_thighs #thighs #tongue #tongue_out #unworn_bikini_bottom #yellow_eyes #zanamaoria https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/3666700
-
"You can’t join if you can’t swear." New post at @stronglang on swearing as a childhood rite of passage in wartime London:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/swearing-as-a-rite-of-passage/#swearing #profanity #film #language #JohnBoorman #WWII #StrongLanguage
-
Montagu's book devotes one long chapter to the peculiar history of the word "bloody", which, he writes, "accumulated so much magic that it provided an unfailing source of energy for use in all sorts of refined meanings."
#swearing #words #bloody #expletives #etymology #AshleyMontagu #language #profanity #books
-
Nueva sala #xmpp , ahora desde xmpp.social
Cito: "Con el fin de darle un poco más de visibilidad a la difusión de la mensajería sobre XMPP en LibreTICs hemos creado un grupo con la utilización del servicio xmpp.social." @libretics
xmpp:[email protected]cial?join
Pasen, saluden y disfruten. #fediverso #im #gajim #dino #profanity #conversations #monocles #weechat
-
“Politeness blunts the tongue of criticism, ridicule, satire or irony. On the other hand, radical rudeness breaks down the doors to the arsenal of verbal, literary, and linguistic devices available to launch a counterattack against corrupt militant brutes in government who use bullets, prison sentences, and mass graves to silence their opponents.“
~ Dr. Stella Nyanzi, 2022 in https://pen.org/the-pen-ten-an-interview-with-stella-nyanzi/ @supremacy 🧵
#respectability #activism #anger #Nyanzi #civility #profanity #patriarchy #feminicides #feminisms #rudeness #resistance #struggle #violence #stateViolence #politeness #quotes #germany #uganda
-
I know this doesn't make me a "grown up researcher," but I always get a giggle when a histogram or bar chart gives me the finger.
-
"Dajte sa vypchať,“ povedal za použitia #vulgarizmu Musk v rozhovore. (https://svet.sme.sk/c/23250774/musk-vulgarne-napadol-inzerentov-ktory-opustili-jeho-platformu-x.html)
Táto prehnaná slovenská útlocitnosť. Bolo by jednoduchšie a oveľa výstižnejšie a presnejšie napísať "Poj*bte sa", prípadne "Choďte do p*če", než to takto trápne opisovať.
Niekedy ma slovenskí novinári privádzajú do zúfalstva podobne ako slovenský #dabing: všetci sa tu tvária, akoby Slováčiská nevedeli nadávať.
A pritom vieme, a ešte ako kventato a šťavnato. Podľa mňa sme v tom oveľa kreatívnejší, keď sa snažíme, než anglicky hovoriace kmene 😁.Go #fuck yourself skutočne nie Dajte sa vypchať.
"Go fuck yourself." (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/elon-musk-on-x-antisemitism-controversy-dont-advertise-go-f-yourself/).
#jazyk #nadávky #vulgarizmy #profanity #preklad #preklady #slovenčina #slovencina
-
Does #AnyoneElse #Remember that #Time when #TheLittleLotROPixies had a #Visit from #TheTantrumFairy about #ProlificSwearing...?
The #MiserableMorons and #RacistHomophobes at #LotRO have a #RealProblem with #Profanity and #Hypocrisy; even though #NoOneCares...
#Meanwhile... #Hooray for #ChocobaconWotsits and #Transformers: #RobbitsInDisguise...!
🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🪐🦹🚀🦄🚀🦹🪐
