#swearing — Public Fediverse posts

Music with explicit lyrics is in decline, report shows

https://www.nme.com/news/music/music-with-explicit-lyrics-is-in-decline-report-shows-3955180

#music #swearing

Please enjoy my new animated film: weird and just shy of 7 minutes, this took me weeks to shoot, draw, animate, edit and sing. It has my filthy fingerprints all over it; no art-stealing robots were involved. There’s some swearing.
Enjoy watching with a friend or perhaps privately; or maybe hiding, ashamed.
#StopMotionAnimation #OriginalMusic #bgm #Film #Animation #Satire #music #swearing
https://makertube.net/w/14feEmXmfSuPd958ZvWZQq

When should you stop singing lullabies with curse words to your child?

#lullabies #swearing #children

Swearing helps people perform better when peak performance is needed, study finds

https://www.psypost.org/swearing-helps-people-perform-better-when-peak-performance-is-needed-study-finds/

#psychology #neuroscience #cognitivescience #brainscience #swearing #cussing #cursing #cusstowin

Odious Offord appears on the tv news and I immediately swear at the tv.

I hope this doesn't stop. I'd hate to accept that Reform are the acceptable face of fascism.

#UKpol #swearing #Reform

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #504: Swearnet.
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#swearnet #movies #facts #movietrivia #censorship #language #swearing #comcis #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

"In my research, I have noticed that while all western countries write in cursive, Ireland is the only country to speak in cursive." --- Bernard O’Scanaill #language #literature #university #HigherEd #linguistics #edchat #swearing www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Readers reply: which countries...

UK: Urban Swear Map Update! preply.com/en/blog/uk-c... #language #research #swearing #edchat #English #linguistics

What kind of profanity is this?
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/what-kind-of-profanity-is-this/

#language #swearing #slang #profanity #linguistics #words #StrongLanguage

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.