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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. History of Swear Words - Wikipedia

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    On December 9, 2020, it was announced that Nicolas Cage would host an unscripted six-episode series about the history of swear words for Netflix. [1] [2]The series has been produced by Bellamie Blackstone, Mike Farah, Joe Farrell, and Beth Belew for Funny or Die, with Brien Meagher and Rhett Bachner for Industrial Media's B17 Entertainment respectively.

  4. Do Fayetteville residents use a lot of profanity? Survey ...

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    The Word.Tips survey used a sample of 1.7 million English-language, geotagged posts on X to find the percentage of swear words in countries around the world and cities and states around the United ...

  5. Latin obscenity - Wikipedia

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    Latin obscenity is the profane, indecent, or impolite vocabulary of Latin, and its uses. Words deemed obscene were described as obsc (a)ena (obscene, lewd, unfit for public use), or improba (improper, in poor taste, undignified). Documented obscenities occurred rarely in classical Latin literature, limited to certain types of writing such as ...

  6. Japanese profanity - Wikipedia

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    Japanese profanity. Profanity in the Japanese language can pertain to scatological references or aim to put down the listener by negatively commenting on their ability, intellect, or appearance. [1] Furthermore, there are different levels of Japanese speech that indicate politeness, social standing and respect, [2] referred to, simply, as ...

  7. Review: Netflix's 'History of Swear Words' isn't even worth ...

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    Netflix's "History of Swear Words," hosted by Nicolas Cage, could learn from the profane pop culture it highlights, from Lenny Bruce to "American Pie."

  8. Polish profanity - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation: IPA: [ˈpʲɛrdɔlʲit͡ɕ ˈɕɛ] To have sex. To waste time on something. To be overly cautious with something. [12] Jebać. Pronunciation: IPA: [ˈjɛbat͡ɕ] “To fuck”/have sex with someone. This word has many derivative words as well, and is in fact one of the most versatile words in the Polish language.

  9. Georgian profanity - Wikipedia

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    For exact and comprehensive pronunciation of words and phrases, especially ones written with the apostrophes, the rules of Romanization of Georgian and IPA are essential. The Georgian Orthodox Church and Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia have traditionally been very critical of Georgian profanity, describing it as "words of death and ...