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Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social & @stancarey.bsky.social
Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social & @stancarey.bsky.social
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With apologies, but...
Shite Christmas
Shite Christmas
Ruin a movie by changing or adding one letter, holiday edition. 🎄👀
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
With apologies, but...
Shite Christmas
Shite Christmas
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"Even as the F-word has proliferated on smaller screens, a rule from the 1980s that limits its use in PG-13 movies has endured, influencing the way some filmmakers write, shoot and edit." | cc @stronglang.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Filthy Word That Filmmakers Swear By (Gift Article)
How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"Even as the F-word has proliferated on smaller screens, a rule from the 1980s that limits its use in PG-13 movies has endured, influencing the way some filmmakers write, shoot and edit." | cc @stronglang.bsky.social
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FTA: @fritinancy.bsky.social talks about fcuking branding stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/w...
What the not-quite-fuck?
How the fuck did what the fuck become acceptable — nay, desirable — as a template for business names and ad campaigns? The obvious rhymes, the winking allusions, the no-apologies acronyms: It’s a W…
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December 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
FTA: @fritinancy.bsky.social talks about fcuking branding stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/w...
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Swearing makes you stronger!
Richard Stevens (of the "swearing makes you more resistant to pain" study) is back, with a study showing that swearing helps you release your inhibitions and give it your all.
Attn @stronglang.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Richard Stevens (of the "swearing makes you more resistant to pain" study) is back, with a study showing that swearing helps you release your inhibitions and give it your all.
Attn @stronglang.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
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December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Swearing makes you stronger!
Richard Stevens (of the "swearing makes you more resistant to pain" study) is back, with a study showing that swearing helps you release your inhibitions and give it your all.
Attn @stronglang.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Richard Stevens (of the "swearing makes you more resistant to pain" study) is back, with a study showing that swearing helps you release your inhibitions and give it your all.
Attn @stronglang.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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you should be allowed tell one person to fuck off each day without them getting mad
December 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
you should be allowed tell one person to fuck off each day without them getting mad
FTA: A guest post from Karyl Krug. FUBAR? FIGMO. Fox Oscar. stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/i...
If you can’t fly it, fuck it, or eat it, piss on it
A guest post by Karyl Krug, MA, JD, Esq. Ever since the publication of Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff, people the world over have thought that “screw the pooch” is a phrase commonly used by Ameri…
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December 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
FTA: A guest post from Karyl Krug. FUBAR? FIGMO. Fox Oscar. stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/i...
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A colloquial Russian equivalent to “mind your own business” is тебя не ебут, ты не подмахивай. It means “you’re not getting fucked, so don’t wiggle your ass.”
December 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A colloquial Russian equivalent to “mind your own business” is тебя не ебут, ты не подмахивай. It means “you’re not getting fucked, so don’t wiggle your ass.”
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bank statement..Jaysis. If I ever go for a loan, I’ll have some job explaining that’s a charity shop and nothing more..
December 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
bank statement..Jaysis. If I ever go for a loan, I’ll have some job explaining that’s a charity shop and nothing more..
FTA: @mashedradish.bsky.social tells us what it sounds like when fucks fly stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/w...
When fucks fly
What exactly is a flying fuck? And why does this fuck fly? Flying fuck enjoys many fun literal interpretations. Gadget-heads might like the remote-controlled helicopter featured above, craftier fol…
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December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
FTA: @mashedradish.bsky.social tells us what it sounds like when fucks fly stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/w...
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STILL NOT SURE if I can somehow wear this to last work day before Christmas
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
STILL NOT SURE if I can somehow wear this to last work day before Christmas
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Swearing & Christmas, there's no better combo 🤬🙃 Join us for the last ISLE Online forum of the year with Kate Burridge, Kristy Beers Fägersten & Karyn Stapleton on Friday (Dec 12), 10am CET. Zoom link available here: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... #ISLE #EnglishLinguistics #Linguistics
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Swearing & Christmas, there's no better combo 🤬🙃 Join us for the last ISLE Online forum of the year with Kate Burridge, Kristy Beers Fägersten & Karyn Stapleton on Friday (Dec 12), 10am CET. Zoom link available here: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... #ISLE #EnglishLinguistics #Linguistics
FTA: A decade ago, @fritinancy.bsky.social looked back at a sweary good year stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/a...
A very good year for swears
On January 8, attendees at the American Dialect Society’s annual meeting, in Washington, D.C., selected they — a “gender-neutral singular pronoun for a known person, as a non-binary identifie…
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December 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
FTA: A decade ago, @fritinancy.bsky.social looked back at a sweary good year stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/a...
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How would you define the difference between bullshit and horseshit?
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
How would you define the difference between bullshit and horseshit?
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My interest in (1) tennis and, unrelatedly, (2) the linguistics of profanity means that just now when I saw the phrase "WTA RG F" my brain briefly decided that it meant "what the actual Roland-Garros fuck"
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My interest in (1) tennis and, unrelatedly, (2) the linguistics of profanity means that just now when I saw the phrase "WTA RG F" my brain briefly decided that it meant "what the actual Roland-Garros fuck"
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The term "circlejerk" has picked up an interesting new figurative meaning in the names of subreddits, meaning something similar to "shitposting".
So for example r/vexillologycirclejerk, is full of dumb memes and jokes about flags.
So for example r/vexillologycirclejerk, is full of dumb memes and jokes about flags.
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The term "circlejerk" has picked up an interesting new figurative meaning in the names of subreddits, meaning something similar to "shitposting".
So for example r/vexillologycirclejerk, is full of dumb memes and jokes about flags.
So for example r/vexillologycirclejerk, is full of dumb memes and jokes about flags.
FTA: A real circle-jerk from @sesquiotic.bsky.social stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/c...
Coming to grips with circle jerks
Today we’re going to answer the question “What the fuck is a circle jerk?” so you don’t end up like Melissa Rauch’s parents. To begin with, what’s the difference between a circle jerk and a cluster…
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December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
FTA: A real circle-jerk from @sesquiotic.bsky.social stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/c...
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Why spend your morning getting anything productive done when you too could be going through the Official Ofcom Guide to Bad Words?
(Warning, of course, for bad language.) @stronglang.bsky.social www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
(Warning, of course, for bad language.) @stronglang.bsky.social www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
www.ofcom.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Why spend your morning getting anything productive done when you too could be going through the Official Ofcom Guide to Bad Words?
(Warning, of course, for bad language.) @stronglang.bsky.social www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
(Warning, of course, for bad language.) @stronglang.bsky.social www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
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Melissa Mohr's "Holy Sh*t" and Geoffrey Hughes's "Encyclopedia of Swearing" are great. Hughes's "Swearing: A Social History…" has rich detail but not modern. Rob Chirico's "Damn!" covers the US, and Ben Bergen's "What the F" addresses recent shifts from a cog-sci pov
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Melissa Mohr's "Holy Sh*t" and Geoffrey Hughes's "Encyclopedia of Swearing" are great. Hughes's "Swearing: A Social History…" has rich detail but not modern. Rob Chirico's "Damn!" covers the US, and Ben Bergen's "What the F" addresses recent shifts from a cog-sci pov
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While we're here, do you know of any well researched books on the history of profane/uncouth language? I'm especially interested in the recent (last 50 years) changes that have happened in taboo language.
November 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
While we're here, do you know of any well researched books on the history of profane/uncouth language? I'm especially interested in the recent (last 50 years) changes that have happened in taboo language.
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can bluesky please stop hiding replies just because they have bad words in them? i'm a grownup, i can read the word "fuck"
November 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
can bluesky please stop hiding replies just because they have bad words in them? i'm a grownup, i can read the word "fuck"
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November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Every time I walk past this cafe on Bethnal Green Road I think it embodies all the ways modern London annoys me
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Every time I walk past this cafe on Bethnal Green Road I think it embodies all the ways modern London annoys me
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@stronglang.bsky.social Can it be true?
Watching Death by Lightning.
Who is the linguist who can tell me:
Can it possibly true that even in all-male company, 19th-century politicians cursed quite this freely?
Who is the linguist who can tell me:
Can it possibly true that even in all-male company, 19th-century politicians cursed quite this freely?
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
@stronglang.bsky.social Can it be true?
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November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM