Swearwords increasingly used for emphasis and to build social bonds, rather than to insult, say academics

Swearwords increasingly used for emphasis and to build social bonds, rather than to insult, say academics

  • cammoblammo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yet it wasn’t always that way. Once upon a time that was the normal, everyday ‘correct’ word for that part of the body. It was only a few hundred years ago we decided that Greek and Latin words were the only proper way to discuss anatomy.