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stronglang, 24 days ago to linguistics

We can [VERB] the [TABOO TERM] out of something, but what happens when it's an intransitive verb that takes a prepositional phrase?

@bgzimmer on "agreed the fuck out of it" and similar phrases: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/i-agreed-the-fuck-out-of-it/

#swearing #syntax #linguistics #profanity #grammar #language

stronglang, 28 days ago to linguistics

Diseases are used for swearing in Dutch – but how does that work? @sesquiotic analyses the idiom "sjouw me de tering" in a new post on the Strong Language blog:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/05/11/sick-fuckin-bag-dude/

#swearing #Dutch #linguistics #metaphor #disease #profanity

stronglang, 4 months ago to random

We're sometimes asked how to style "for fuck(')(s) sake", especially when one of those viral "It's for a work email so it has to sound professional" posts circulates.

We prefer singular genitive "fuck's sake", analogous with "God's sake", "Pete's sake", etc. Plural "fucks' sake" if you want to be pointedly expansive or heterodox.

Given the informal register, though, there's nothing seriously wrong with "fuck sake", "fucks sake", "fox sake", etc.

#swearing #fuck #spelling #WritingCommunity

stronglang, 4 months ago to languagelearning

If you see a fun or interesting post that's related somehow to swearing, feel free to tag us! :SamuelJohnson:

#swearing #profanity #TabooLanguage #language #StrongLanguage #swear

stronglang, 4 months ago to linguistics

"Pigs knock you down and fucking fuck you": the obscene language of the kros

@stancarey on a special speech genre in Papua New Guinea:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/pigs-knock-you-down-and-fucking-fuck-you-the-obscene-language-of-the-kros/

#swearing #linguistics #gender #sociolinguistics #taboo

stronglang, 4 months ago to Etymology

Does English offer sweary ways to agree or affirm emphatically? You bet your ass it does, says @IvaCheung:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/emphatic-affirmatives/

#swearing #etymology #idioms #language

stronglang, 4 months ago to random

Think you know the f-word?

Test your knowledge with @jamescallan's quiz about "fuck"! New on the Strong Language blog:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/01/20/f-word-trivia-time/

#swearing #fuck #quiz

stronglang, 5 months ago to random

"Enshittification", "FAFO", and "assholocene" featured in the American Dialect Society’s recent word-of-the-year vote.

@Fritinancy reports on the sweary WOTYs:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/the-sweary-wotys/

#WOTY2023 #WOTY #enshittification #swearing

stronglang, 7 months ago to reddit

Behold! The Matrix of Pejoration, by Colin Morris

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=60998

#insults #Reddit #words #WordFormation #compounding #language

stronglang, 8 months ago to tv

Freak those monkey-fightin' melon farmers!

@stancarey on swear-avoiding movie dubs

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/freak-those-monkey-fightin-melon-farmers/

#swearing #TV #movies #dubbing #film #censorship

stronglang, 8 months ago to random

The middle finger 🖕 in American Sign Language (lots of great gifs in this one)
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/the-middle-finger-in-american-sign-language/

#ASL #SignLanguage #swearing #MiddleFinger

ASL instructor Peter Wujcik makes a sign equivalent to "Fuck yeah" or "Fuckin' A." With lips pursed and head nodding, he brings his right hand from the shoulder down to a stop in front of his lower chest, where it faces up, the middle finger and thumb extended.

stronglang, 9 months ago to GraphicDesign

More rude food words from trademark expert Anne Gilson LaLonde, who looks at PHO KEENE GREAT, COCK-ASIAN, and other edgy brands:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/food-trucks-serve-up-slurs-slang/

#branding #trademarks #slurs

stronglang, 9 months ago to Horror

Great moments in swearing: "You gotta be fuckin' kidding"

@stancarey on the use of strong language in John Carpenter's The Thing:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/great-moments-in-swearing-you-gotta-be-fuckin-kidding/

#swearing #TheThing #HorrorMovies #CineMastodon #horror #CultMovies

stronglang, 9 months ago to history

How old is interjectional "shit"? @jessesheidlower on a remarkable drunken diary entry from 1844:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/interjectional-shit-in-a-drunken-1844-diary-entry/

#swearing #lexicography #slang #shit #history #research

stronglang, 9 months ago to random

A "bee's dick" of salt? @bgzimmer examines an Australian idiom making inroads elsewhere:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/a-new-cooking-measurement/

#slang #idioms #AustralianEnglish

stronglang, 9 months ago to languagelearning

"They are a people of contradictions, and their swearing is no different." @korystamper looks at common Finnish swearwords:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/the-wide-wide-world-of-fucks-finland/

#swearing #profanity #language #swearwords

stronglang, 9 months ago to random

How Tippi Hedren used her spare time (The Birds, 1963)

Tippi Hedren, in the same spot, smiling now, saying, 'finding new four-letter words.'

stronglang, 9 months ago to linguistics

Bill Watterson was right about this, too. Swearing does not indicate impoverished vocabulary

https://www.mcla.edu/Assets/MCLA-Files/Academics/Undergraduate/Psychology/fluency%202015.pdf

#swearing #profanity #vocabulary #linguistics #TabooWords #mythbusting #CalvinAndHobbes #comics

stronglang, 9 months ago to linguistics

Who fucks who, and why should we care?

@alischinsky on how grammatical nuances can "help us answer some of the big social questions about fucking"

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/who-fucks-who-and-why-should-we-care/

#linguistics #CorpusLinguistics #sexuality #agency #erotica

stronglang, 10 months ago to random

Abso-jesus-lutely not: @gretchenmcc on what swears work (or don't) in expletive infixation

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/abso-jesus-lutely-not-why-can-you-infix-fucking-and-bloody-but-not-other-swears/

#swearing #infixation #grammar

stronglang, 10 months ago to random

We have an annual tradition of Tucker Awards for Excellence in Swearing, named after our patron saint. @bgzimmer does the honours:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/category/tucker-awards/

Let us know if you see something deserving a Tucker!

#swearing #TuckerAwards #MalcolmTucker

stronglang, 10 months ago to random

You may have seen the words "enshittify" and "enshittification" recently. @Fritinancy looks at where they came from (@pluralistic) and why they caught on:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/enshittification/

#slang #neologisms #enshittification