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Sep 16, 2015 · The Vulgar Tongue: A dictionary of filthy words. 16 September 2015. By Fiona Macdonald,Features correspondent. Thinkstock. (Credit: Thinkstock) During midnight walks, Francis Grose collected...
Vulgarity is the quality of being common, coarse, or unrefined. This judgement may refer to language, visual art, social class, or social climbers. [1] . John Bayley claims the term can never be self-referential, because to be aware of vulgarity is to display a degree of sophistication which thereby elevates the subject above the vulgar. [2]
Sep 13, 2016 · September 13, 2016 10:00 AM EDT. Benjamin Bergen is the author of What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, And Ourselves. P rofane words have a direct line to our...
Jul 14, 2016 · Published: July 13, 2016 8:54pm EDT. First, language does matter. Sexist jokes and other kinds of offensive language can have an impact, even if that was not the speaker’s intent. Second, the...
Dec 23, 2019 · The first English dictionaries of cant, published in the early eighteen century, attributed vulgar language to the criminal classes. The literary scholar Janet Sorensen explores how these dictionaries worked to contain and confine non-standard language — along with the people who spoke it.
Mar 6, 2022 · Posted March 6, 2022|Reviewed by Abigail Fagan. Key points. Over the course of the history of English, what offends us has changed drastically. Swearing, cursing and obscenity are distinct forms of...
Oct 18, 2022 · Published: October 18, 2022 12:15pm EDT. Swearing was long dismissed as a topic of serious research because it was assumed to be simply a sign of aggression, weak language proficiency or even low...
