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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. Pop Quiz: Why Can't 'Swear Words' Be Said on TV? - AOL

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    Sitcoms and family shows have been making substitutions like "sugar" and "fudge" for expletives and curse words for quite some time. Newsy itself has a standards team that deals with that question ...

  6. The historical origins of 6 swear words - AOL

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    Sometimes, everyday speech just can't convey your meaning. You need words with a little more oomph ? expletives.

  7. Swear words in different languages lack similar sounds ... - AOL

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    Swear words are thought to have sounds that help facilitate the expression of emotion and attitude, researchers say. Swear words in different languages lack similar sounds, study suggests Skip to ...

  8. Bleep censor - Wikipedia

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    The Arthur (TV series) episode "Bleep" censored out a bad word that D.W. says in the story in order to have an episode about swearing without needing to expose child viewers to the word. See also [ edit ]

  9. Polish profanity - Wikipedia

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    The Polish language, like most others, contains swear words and profanity. Although some words are not always seen as pejorative, others are considered by some to be highly offensive. There is debate amongst scholars regarding the language's swear words that are considered to be the most derogatory. [1] [2] [3] [4]