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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. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    It's the thrust of the sentence that makes them either good or bad. [4] Carlin was arrested for disturbing the peace when he performed the routine at a show at Summerfest in Milwaukee in 1972. On his next album, 1973's Occupation: Foole, he performed a similar routine titled "Filthy Words", dealing with the same list and many of the same themes.

  4. 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.

  5. Bleep censor - Wikipedia

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    Trailers for programs containing swearing are usually bleeped until well after the watershed, and it is very rare for any trailer to use the most severe swear words uncensored. [ citation needed ] United States

  6. Maledictology - Wikipedia

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    The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory was developed by psychologist Timothy Jay. In his book Why We Curse (1999), Jay outlines the theory's purpose: it can predict the circumstances in which certain individuals would swear and explain why curse words are used. [2] To do so, the theory defines rules that organise cursing as a systematic phenomenon.

  7. Forget bad blood: Bad words on Taylor Swift’s albums ... - AOL

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    She gets more foul-mouthed with age. Taylor Swift is increasing the number of curse words in her lyrics with every new album. The pop superstar’s 11th album “The Tortured Poets Department ...

  8. Why Olivia Rodrigo Changed Some of Her More Explicit 'Guts ...

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    Kimmel, 55, revealed that the swear words in Rodrigo’s songs have actually impacted his home life. “The ‘Vampire’ song has a catchy little lyric in there that our son started singing back ...

  9. The 'G-word': The slur you didn't know was a slur - AOL

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    The issue here is that this term — the G-word — is more widely recognizable than the preferred term “Romani people” or “the Roma.” But when used by non-Romani people, the G-word is a ...