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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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    A follow-up routine, titled "Filthy Words" (featured on his album Occupation: Foole) sees Carlin revisiting the original list and admitting that it is not complete, proceeding to add the words "fart", "turd", and "twat" to the list. He brings this up again in another follow-up routine, "Dirty Words" (featured in George Carlin: Again!

  4. 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.

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

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    Cursing is a sign of high intelligence, study shows. Russel Abad. Updated October 3, 2016 at 10:55 AM. ... Curse word fluency was found to be connected to traits of neuroticism and openness.

  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. Norwegian profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity in the Norwegian language is referred to in Norwegian as banneord (curse words) or simply upassende språk (inappropriate language). Many words are characterized by dialect. The offensiveness and strength of a word may be very different between regions. People from Northern Norway in particular are known for swearing in public. [1]

  8. 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 ...

  9. Teacher shown on video cursing at students, calling George ...

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    Howard Zlotkin's class at Dickinson High School in New Jersey began with a discussion on climate change before turning into an expletive-filled rant, a student said.