Someone stole my toilet! I suspect this guy
Strong Language
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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 & @fritinancy.bsky.social
Sometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.
“Have you checked the copy for the Enterprise display ad?” “Didn’t need to, it’s the same every week” [one day later] “Oh”
In my considered opinion, so much created slang/cursing comes across as cringe precisely because it doesn't sound like anything anyone would ever have coming out of their mouth, this especially true of adding/changing letters in "fuck"
Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 2w agoI gave up and just instituted a rule that people were allowed to say “oh my god” in a pantheistic society because “oh my gods” just hits my ear wrong.
FTA: @fritinancy.bsky.social talks about the ins and outs of being a pussy stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/a...
“A feline profanity”: Part 1
Pity the poor media-standards editor in this sweary era. One can only imagine, for example, the wringing of hands and gnawing of blue pencils last month when, at a mass rally, the short-fingered vu…
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At this point, JK Rowling has spent more time and energy writing about how much she hates a vulnerable part of the human condition that never did one goddamned fucking thing to harm her than she ever did writing Harry Potter.
FTA: They don't swear the same everywhere. @stancarey.bsky.social used Jack Grieve's Word Mapper to map the popularity of many cuss words across the US stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/s...
Sweary maps 2: Swear harder
You may remember Jack Grieve’s swear maps of the USA. Now he has a nifty new web app called Word Mapper that lets anyone with an internet connection make use of the raw data behind those maps. Bein…
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Would love a reverse swear jar situation where I put a dollar in and it gives me a new and exciting expletive to use
Mel Brooks is a greater piece of American heritage than the Confederacy.
Flat Pluto Society@adhdgobl.in · last mo.Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the US's existence.
the com in .com is short for company. i trust you will correct your pronunciation
An Oklahoma farmer was arrested & cuffed for speaking a few seconds too long at a public forum on a data center. @404media.co has the footage "You need to leave” -officer “I’m done with the mic” -farmer "Right now" “On what grounds?" “Arrest him" - cop www.404media.co/bodycam-foot...
Bodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting
We spoke to Darren Blanchard, the man arrested while speaking out against data centers at a community meeting. He's sharing the bodycam footage of his arrest for the first time with 404 Media.
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"Fucken A!" Wolf-boy versus Grinder (the Bow Valley Beowulf), 2026 James Harbeck 🇨🇦
Lots of echoes of my experience in this. But please don't make me read the phrase "sperm sisters" ever again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sisters who share same sperm donor dad meet for first time
Natasha, Gemma and Helen say finding each other has been a "fairy tale".
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BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”
It sounds like the Knicks won and people needed to express that in their native language
Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 2mo agoAn F-bomb derails a CBS News New York live report on Knicks fans celebrating the championship.
BBC Guest: “I think Gianni Infantino and FIFA are a bunch of greedy fucks.” BBC: “Apologies for the language.”
This is a veteran ripping into Trump for the Arlington visit and I’m amused as all hell that Newsweek quoted him this way 🤣
also, I'm feeling a little cranky tonight. let's do it #medium #writing #writer #freeread #shortread #opinion #language #linguistics #swearing #fuck
In Defense of Saying “F*ck”
Swearing is caring, and I really, really do.
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Happy feast day of St Gottschalk, patron saint of linguists, languages, translators, and lost vocations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottsch...
Gottschalk (Obotrite prince) - Wikipedia
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Holy geez, are you fuckers in for a treat. @sesquiotic.bsky.social had a cocktail or two over the weekend and recorded his translations of passages from Beowulf (plus the original Old English of the intro). stronglang.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/w...
Wolf-boy and Grinder: The audio version
I promised to record audio of my translated passages from Beowulf, and I have. As a bonus, I’ve also recorded the introduction in the original version, for those who want to have an idea of how Old…
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