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

  • @cmbabul
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    4010 months ago

    Gen X broke down the gate, millennials buried the gate, and Gen Z built a monument to swearing on top of where the gate once stood

    • SonnyVabitch
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      1110 months ago

      That’s fucking glorious!

      • @cmbabul
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        10 months ago

        But that’s not a swear or curse word. The swear words are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits, damn, sonofabitch, goddamn, ass, asshole, bastard and other plays on those words.

        And I’m pretty sure the unalive thing came from TikTok pulling and censoring videos with the word kill in them.

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          I see a LOT of censoring all of those words from younger people who grew up with tiktok tho