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  1. bs2 @[email protected] ·

    > ... 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.

    newrepublic.com/article/63921/

    The comment about Pinker's "confident tone" focussed my attention on the appearance of #HarryFrankfurt's #OnBullshit in his essay on #TabooWords #CurseWords

    #cursewords #taboowords #onbullshit #harryfrankfurt