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  2. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  3. Cursing is a sign of high intelligence, study shows - AOL

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    Curse word fluency was found to be connected to traits of neuroticism and openness. The study also showed no major difference in results between men and women So congratulations, you're a f***ing ...

  4. Profane (religion) - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, many Bible verses speak against swearing. [5] In some countries, profanity words often have pagan roots that after Christian influence were turned from names of deities and spirits to profanity and used as such, like famous Finnish profanity word perkele, which was believed to be an original name of the thunder god Ukko, the chief god ...

  5. Profanity in American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL), the sign language used by the deaf community throughout most of North America, has a rich vocabulary of terms, which include profanity. Within deaf culture, there is a distinction drawn between signs used to curse versus signs that are used to describe sexual acts.

  6. Queen Elizabeth thinks this completely normal word is “vulgar”

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    Granted, she was talking about the Anglo-Saxon origins of the word that he uses so much—not cursing him out. Still, the idea of the 91-year-old monarch swearing is still amusing. RELATED: Strict ...

  7. Do you swear too much at work? Where is the line? - AOL

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    Swearing is a bit of a risk, and doing so makes us vulnerable; it might signal to the people around us that we trust them enough to bend the rules in their presence (of course, this is tied up in ...

  8. Expletive infixation - Wikipedia

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    Expletive infixation is a process by which an expletive or profanity is inserted into a word, usually for intensification. It is similar to tmesis, but not all instances are covered by the usual definition of tmesis because the words are not necessarily compounds.

  9. Curse - Wikipedia

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    The Curse of the Billy Goat was used to explain the failures of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, who did not win a World Series championship between 1908 and 2016, and a National League pennant between 1945 and 2016. The Curse of the Bambino is a cliche popularized by a Boston Globe sportswriter to describe a decades-long championship drought ...