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  1. The question in this AMA just stopped me in my tracks:

    ”There are a bunch of young engineers and AI researchers in the world, of which I am one, who deeply believe in [.. humane principles for technology development ..], however it still appears we are racing towards tragedy. […]

    Many of us are early in our careers and are concerned that if we speak out, it will harm our prospects.”

    Ouch.

    Another great podcast from the Humane Technology Foundation
    #ai #taboos #tech

    open.spotify.com/episode/2Mx4p

  2. Our next #Mindvoyage lecture is coming up! Tune in to hear Cory Clark talk about “#Taboos and #SelfCensorship among #Psychology Professors” next Thursday, May 23, 4 p.m. CET.
    The online talk is free, registration is required: ae.mpg.de/mindvoyage

    #ArcCogitate

  3. Newer #IndieAuthor here. I am transitioning all of my content from Twitter as #mastadonians have so far been awesome at welcoming me so far 🙏🏻 I do write #erotica in several niches including #scifi #supernatural #taboos #fetishes and do have quite a few projects lined up and hoping to share with potential readers and hopeful fans 🙏🏻

    #authorstodon #authorsofmastadon #authorsden #eroticawriter #eroticawriters

    My "Ladies 2.0" series is my lengthiest planned project
    #SciFiBooks #scifibookstagram

  4. Period taboos in Pakistan and the incredible work that's being down to fight it. I particularly enjoyed the first piece about Anum Khalid and Bushra Mahnoor, students of architectural engineering and psychology respectively. They have worked so hard to set up Mahwari Justice, supplying menstrual products to women caught up in the monsoon disaster. Trans activists helped them.

    #GoodNews #Periods #Menstruation #Taboos #Trans #Pakistan #Heroism

    aljazeera.com/features/2023/5/

  5. Great ripping interview with @JohnCleese about #Creativity, #EducationSystem, “#Wokeness#taboos (don’t get snagged on that reference & miss what he’s really saying. I love his comment about money being his performance enhancing drug ;-) #humour #satire reason.com/2022/12/18/john-cle

  6. CW: NSFW nsfw +18 sexual explicit content

    Que delicia de coño! #Sex #taboos

  7. We don’t feel ashamed to talk about seeing a general practitioner / house doctor. Why do we stigmatize seeing a psychologist? We should exhort each other to seek for help no matter what’s bothering us whether it’s physical or mental.

    #opinions #culture #stigmas #taboos #mentalhealth

  8. Listening to a podcast this morning, I noticed the phrase mature language used in a content warning. It’s one of many phrases in the form X language, some of them similarly euphemistic, for what we might more plainly call swearing.

    In several of these phrases, the modifier identifies the type of content: abusive language contains abuse, obscene language obscenity, profane language profanity, vulgar language vulgarity. But these categories are tricky to define and tend to overlap in usage; the phrases are often used interchangeably.1

    Mature language points to the language’s purported unsuitability for minors, as does adult language. Here the modifiers refer more to the speakers or listeners than to the language itself – if anything, the use of ‘mature’ language is commonly (mis)perceived as immature.

    While these last two terms signal clearly that swearing is on the way, they also seem at odds with the facts that (1) children are generally familiar with swear words, and (2) arguably more adults than children are bothered by swear words. But those are separate cans of worms.

    Still other synonyms, like bad language, coarse language, indecent language, and offensive language, are laced with moral judgement.2 A few convey this through a metaphor of physical hygiene: dirty language, filthy language, foul language. Geoffrey Hughes, in his Encyclopedia of Swearing (2006), writes:

    The use of terms like foul, filth, dirt, and dirty to categorize offensive or abusive language is profound and ancient. Anglo-Saxon ful (“foul”) was used to gloss “obscene” as well as “dirty.” “Shit worde,” dating from 1250, is historically the earliest categorization of coarse speech, followed by “foul speech,” recorded from about 1455.

    Bad language and foul language in particular are so common as to be used routinely by people who see nothing ‘bad’ or ‘foul’ about it. Swearing’s bad reputation is thus paradoxically spread by people who may enjoy the activity.

    It’s hard not to notice the negative valence of these adjectives. Abusive, bad, coarse, dirty, filthy, foul, indecent, obscene, offensive, profane, vulgar – it’s not a flattering list. That’s to be expected, given the social status of swearing and the stereotypes and misunderstanding that accompany it.

    Adult and mature buck that trend, though at the cost of accuracy. Explicit is a relatively neutral descriptor, but it’s also pretty broad. Explicit language could mean plain language – which, as it happens, occasionally means coarse or vulgar language, though nowadays it usually refers to intelligibility.

    Taboo language is similarly vague. It often denotes swearing, but it can encompass insults as well as forms of word magic that manifest, for example, as name avoidance – be it the name of something sacred or feared, or both, like a bear or a god.

    All of which makes strong language a serious outlier.

    When I proposed Strong Language as the name for this blog, back in 2014, I felt it had several things in its favour. For one thing, it’s the rare case of X language where the connotations of X are unequivocally positive. And we’re swear-positive here at Strong Language. It’s also search- and preview-friendly – not a given for a sweary blog about swearing.

    And it’s a good pragmatic fit: more than any other register of verbal expression, when you swear, you likely feel strong emotion or desire strong effects, or both. Swearing is powerful, potent, forceful language. It is the idiom of strong feeling. It wears this adjective well.

    Comic by Random Crab https://randomcrab.com/

     

    1 Michael Adams’s book In Praise of Profanity has insightful discussion of these categories and their blurry boundaries.

    2 One sensible alteration is to recast offensive language as ‘language that some viewers/listeners may find offensive’.

    https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/07/13/strong-bad-mature-filthy-language/

    #comics #euphemisms #language #linguistics #metaphor #naming #phrases #pragmatics #semantics #StrongLanguage #swearing #taboo #tabooAvoidance #tabooLanguage #tabooWords #taboos

  9. Listening to a podcast this morning, I noticed the phrase mature language used in a content warning. It’s one of many phrases in the form X language, some of them similarly euphemistic, for what we might more plainly call swearing.

    In several of these phrases, the modifier identifies the type of content: abusive language contains abuse, obscene language obscenity, profane language profanity, vulgar language vulgarity. But these categories are tricky to define and tend to overlap in usage; the phrases are often used interchangeably.1

    Mature language points to the language’s purported unsuitability for minors, as does adult language. Here the modifiers refer more to the speakers or listeners than to the language itself – if anything, the use of ‘mature’ language is commonly (mis)perceived as immature.

    While these last two terms signal clearly that swearing is on the way, they also seem at odds with the facts that (1) children are generally familiar with swear words, and (2) arguably more adults than children are bothered by swear words. But those are separate cans of worms.

    Still other synonyms, like bad language, coarse language, indecent language, and offensive language, are laced with moral judgement.2 A few convey this through a metaphor of physical hygiene: dirty language, filthy language, foul language. Geoffrey Hughes, in his Encyclopedia of Swearing (2006), writes:

    The use of terms like foul, filth, dirt, and dirty to categorize offensive or abusive language is profound and ancient. Anglo-Saxon ful (“foul”) was used to gloss “obscene” as well as “dirty.” “Shit worde,” dating from 1250, is historically the earliest categorization of coarse speech, followed by “foul speech,” recorded from about 1455.

    Bad language and foul language in particular are so common as to be used routinely by people who see nothing ‘bad’ or ‘foul’ about it. Swearing’s bad reputation is thus paradoxically spread by people who may enjoy the activity.

    It’s hard not to notice the negative valence of these adjectives. Abusive, bad, coarse, dirty, filthy, foul, indecent, obscene, offensive, profane, vulgar – it’s not a flattering list. That’s to be expected, given the social status of swearing and the stereotypes and misunderstanding that accompany it.

    Adult and mature buck that trend, though at the cost of accuracy. Explicit is a relatively neutral descriptor, but it’s also pretty broad. Explicit language could mean plain language – which, as it happens, occasionally means coarse or vulgar language, though nowadays it usually refers to intelligibility.

    Taboo language is similarly vague. It often denotes swearing, but it can encompass insults as well as forms of word magic that manifest, for example, as name avoidance – be it the name of something sacred or feared, or both, like a bear or a god.

    All of which makes strong language a serious outlier.

    When I proposed Strong Language as the name for this blog, back in 2014, I felt it had several things in its favour. For one thing, it’s the rare case of X language where the connotations of X are unequivocally positive. And we’re swear-positive here at Strong Language. It’s also search- and preview-friendly – not a given for a sweary blog about swearing.

    And it’s a good pragmatic fit: more than any other register of verbal expression, when you swear, you likely feel strong emotion or desire strong effects, or both. Swearing is powerful, potent, forceful language. It is the idiom of strong feeling. It wears this adjective well.

    Comic by Random Crab https://randomcrab.com/

     

    1 Michael Adams’s book In Praise of Profanity has insightful discussion of these categories and their blurry boundaries.

    2 One sensible alteration is to recast offensive language as ‘language that some viewers/listeners may find offensive’.

    https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/07/13/strong-bad-mature-filthy-language/

    #comics #euphemisms #language #linguistics #metaphor #naming #phrases #pragmatics #semantics #StrongLanguage #swearing #taboo #tabooAvoidance #tabooLanguage #tabooWords #taboos

  10. CW: Taboos, stepmom fantasy, incest, breeding kink, threesomes, groupsex

    Upcoming projects for my #tabutales series! ALL books do involve various forms of #threesomes and more, including #ffm #groupsex #mmf #cuckquean and #ageplay to name a few. Book 4 houses some fun and unique #taboos (including a #harem for or two for the young men in these stories) to definitely fulfill that #tabooerotica adventure!

    #taboo #incest #StepMomFantasy #momandstepmomFANTASY #breedingkink and MORE!

  11. CW: Taboos, stepmom fantasy, incest, breeding kink, threesomes, groupsex

    Upcoming projects for my #tabutales series! ALL books do involve various forms of #threesomes and more, including #ffm #groupsex #mmf #cuckquean and #ageplay to name a few. Book 4 houses some fun and unique #taboos (including a #harem for or two for the young men in these stories) to definitely fulfill that #tabooerotica adventure!

    #taboo #incest #StepMomFantasy #momandstepmomFANTASY #breedingkink and MORE!

  12. Newer #IndieAuthor here. I am transitioning all of my content from Twitter as #mastadonians have so far been awesome at welcoming me so far 🙏🏻 I do write #erotica in several niches including #scifi #supernatural #taboos #fetishes and do have quite a few projects lined up and hoping to share with potential readers and hopeful fans 🙏🏻

    #authorstodon #authorsofmastadon #authorsden #eroticawriter #eroticawriters

    My "Ladies 2.0" series is my lengthiest planned project
    #SciFiBooks #scifibookstagram

  13. Newer #IndieAuthor here. I am transitioning all of my content from Twitter as #mastadonians have so far been awesome at welcoming me so far 🙏🏻 I do write #erotica in several niches including #scifi #supernatural #taboos #fetishes and do have quite a few projects lined up and hoping to share with potential readers and hopeful fans 🙏🏻

    #authorstodon #authorsofmastadon #authorsden #eroticawriter #eroticawriters

    My "Ladies 2.0" series is my lengthiest planned project
    #SciFiBooks #scifibookstagram

  14. Newer #IndieAuthor here. I am transitioning all of my content from Twitter as #mastadonians have so far been awesome at welcoming me so far 🙏🏻 I do write #erotica in several niches including #scifi #supernatural #taboos #fetishes and do have quite a few projects lined up and hoping to share with potential readers and hopeful fans 🙏🏻

    #authorstodon #authorsofmastadon #authorsden #eroticawriter #eroticawriters

    My "Ladies 2.0" series is my lengthiest planned project
    #SciFiBooks #scifibookstagram

  15. Newer #IndieAuthor here. I am transitioning all of my content from Twitter as #mastadonians have so far been awesome at welcoming me so far 🙏🏻 I do write #erotica in several niches including #scifi #supernatural #taboos #fetishes and do have quite a few projects lined up and hoping to share with potential readers and hopeful fans 🙏🏻

    #authorstodon #authorsofmastadon #authorsden #eroticawriter #eroticawriters

    My "Ladies 2.0" series is my lengthiest planned project
    #SciFiBooks #scifibookstagram

  16. “The ‘liberal international order’ was not the only sign that we placed in the shop window of the #Westernworld. #Rights. #Decency. Respect for basic #societal #taboos. These were things that we claimed too.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

    Chartbook 432 "Writing column....

  17. “The ‘liberal international order’ was not the only sign that we placed in the shop window of the #Westernworld. #Rights. #Decency. Respect for basic #societal #taboos. These were things that we claimed too.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

    Chartbook 432 "Writing column....

  18. Lau dọn bàn thờ cuối năm cần tránh các hành động kiêng kỵ: không để nước thấm vào thới, không đặt vật phẩm không sạch, không thay đổi vị trí các vật linh thiêng, và không dùng âm thanh ồn ào. Giữ lễ nghi trang nghiêm, để gia đình đón năm mới an lành. #bànthờ #tết #kiêngkỵ #vănhoá #Vietnam #altar #tradition #taboos #VietnameseCulture

    vtcnews.vn/nhung-dieu-kieng-ky

  19. Lau dọn bàn thờ cuối năm cần tránh các hành động kiêng kỵ: không để nước thấm vào thới, không đặt vật phẩm không sạch, không thay đổi vị trí các vật linh thiêng, và không dùng âm thanh ồn ào. Giữ lễ nghi trang nghiêm, để gia đình đón năm mới an lành. #bànthờ #tết #kiêngkỵ #vănhoá #Vietnam #altar #tradition #taboos #VietnameseCulture

    vtcnews.vn/nhung-dieu-kieng-ky

  20. The question in this AMA just stopped me in my tracks:

    ”There are a bunch of young engineers and AI researchers in the world, of which I am one, who deeply believe in [.. humane principles for technology development ..], however it still appears we are racing towards tragedy. […]

    Many of us are early in our careers and are concerned that if we speak out, it will harm our prospects.”

    Ouch.

    Another great podcast from the Humane Technology Foundation
    #ai #taboos #tech

    open.spotify.com/episode/2Mx4p

  21. The question in this AMA just stopped me in my tracks:

    ”There are a bunch of young engineers and AI researchers in the world, of which I am one, who deeply believe in [.. humane principles for technology development ..], however it still appears we are racing towards tragedy. […]

    Many of us are early in our careers and are concerned that if we speak out, it will harm our prospects.”

    Ouch.

    Another great podcast from the Humane Technology Foundation
    #ai #taboos #tech

    open.spotify.com/episode/2Mx4p

  22. The question in this AMA just stopped me in my tracks:

    ”There are a bunch of young engineers and AI researchers in the world, of which I am one, who deeply believe in [.. humane principles for technology development ..], however it still appears we are racing towards tragedy. […]

    Many of us are early in our careers and are concerned that if we speak out, it will harm our prospects.”

    Ouch.

    Another great podcast from the Humane Technology Foundation
    #ai #taboos #tech

    open.spotify.com/episode/2Mx4p

  23. The question in this AMA just stopped me in my tracks:

    ”There are a bunch of young engineers and AI researchers in the world, of which I am one, who deeply believe in [.. humane principles for technology development ..], however it still appears we are racing towards tragedy. […]

    Many of us are early in our careers and are concerned that if we speak out, it will harm our prospects.”

    Ouch.

    Another great podcast from the Humane Technology Foundation
    #ai #taboos #tech

    open.spotify.com/episode/2Mx4p

  24. Our next #Mindvoyage lecture is coming up! Tune in to hear Cory Clark talk about “#Taboos and #SelfCensorship among #Psychology Professors” next Thursday, May 23, 4 p.m. CET.
    The online talk is free, registration is required: ae.mpg.de/mindvoyage

    #ArcCogitate

  25. Our next #Mindvoyage lecture is coming up! Tune in to hear Cory Clark talk about “#Taboos and #SelfCensorship among #Psychology Professors” next Thursday, May 23, 4 p.m. CET.
    The online talk is free, registration is required: ae.mpg.de/mindvoyage

    #ArcCogitate

  26. 'It's understandable why some might find the concept controversial, with such campaigns blurring the line between what's considered appropriate and what's deemed as offensive, especially when it comes to religious practices.' foodnavigator.com/Article/2024 #foodstudies #marketing #Italy #taboos #culture

  27. 'It's understandable why some might find the concept controversial, with such campaigns blurring the line between what's considered appropriate and what's deemed as offensive, especially when it comes to religious practices.' foodnavigator.com/Article/2024 #foodstudies #marketing #Italy #taboos #culture

  28. 'It's understandable why some might find the concept controversial, with such campaigns blurring the line between what's considered appropriate and what's deemed as offensive, especially when it comes to religious practices.' foodnavigator.com/Article/2024 #foodstudies #marketing #Italy #taboos #culture

  29. 'It's understandable why some might find the concept controversial, with such campaigns blurring the line between what's considered appropriate and what's deemed as offensive, especially when it comes to religious practices.' foodnavigator.com/Article/2024 #foodstudies #marketing #Italy #taboos #culture