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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. Coprolalia - Wikipedia

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    Coprolalia (/ ˌ k ɒ p r ə ˈ l eɪ l i ə / KOP-rə-LAY-lee-ə) is involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks. The word comes from the Greek κόπρος ( kópros ), meaning "dung, feces ", and λαλιά ( laliā́ ) "speech", from λαλεῖν ( laleîn ) "to talk".

  4. Bleep censor - Wikipedia

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    YouTube videos often have profanity bleeped or muted out as YouTube policy specifies that videos including profanities may be "demonetized" or stripped of ads. [10] Beginning in 2019, the bleep censor began to be more often used for censoring out words related to sensitive and contentious topics to evade algorithmic censorship online ...

  5. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    A poster in a WBAI broadcast booth which warns radio broadcasters against using the words. The seven dirty words are seven English language profanity words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in his 1972 "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" monologue. [1]

  6. Wikipedia:Swearing is Permissible - Wikipedia

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    On the contrary, swearing is not prohibited in Wikipedia project spaces. While curse words should be used only with care, merely using a curse word does not, by itself, represent incivility . They are rarely encouraged , because while they may not be uncivil, they also seldom foster an environment of civility, but there are many times where ...

  7. See which words Gordon Ramsay uses as alternative swears - AOL

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    Now, we all know Chef Gordon Ramsay loves his curse words -- but fortunately, Gordon's children haven't inherited his notoriously dirty mouth. Instead, he told Jimmy Kimmel he taught them some ...

  8. Minced oath - Wikipedia

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    Writers sometimes face the problem of portraying characters who swear and often include minced oaths instead of profanity in their writing so that they will not offend audiences or incur censorship. One example is The Naked and the Dead , where publishers required author Norman Mailer to use the minced oath "fug" over his objections. [ 24 ]

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

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    Intelligent people use more curse words, according to a scientific study from Marist College.. The research suggests that a healthy vocabulary of curse words is a sign of a rhetorical skill.