Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, language lovers. Active: @stronglang@lingo.lol on Mastodon; stronglang on Bluesky
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New on the blog: @Fritinancy on “bitchin’,” which rode a wave of surfer slang to become a widespread adjective, interjection , and brand name. stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
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"Bumbaclart" is a pronunciation spelling (for non-rhotic speakers) of Jamaican patois "bomboclaat"/"bumbaclot." See @sesquiotic's @stronglang post for background on the term. stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
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The sweary WotYs stronglang.wordpress.com/202… via @stronglang
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And the American Dialect Society’s “Word of the Year” is…
Enshittification — a “sadly apt” term, as the lexicographer @bgzimmer put it, for when an online platform goes to shit
Ahem.
americandialect.org/2023-wor…
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@stronglang "Enshittification" was the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year. Popularized by @doctorow in December 2022, but not first used at this time, as this #enshittification thread shows. #shit #WOTY2023
My Word Of The Year choice was "Zionism," after the Hamas-Israel conflict. However, when @americandialect meets, you get choices like this. It was not even a #woty23 finalist. cc @bgzimmer @GrantBarrett @btaylorblake @EsnpcB
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It's time for the annual @stronglang Tucker Awards for excellence in swearing! Featuring @doctorow @jessearmstrong1 @cordjefferson @jfreewright @TerryMatalas @rebecca_roache @JessZafarris @BodyForWife @oliviarodrigo @offspring @JasmineForUS @chrissyteigen stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
Happy new year, mofos! Time for our year-end tradition: the annual Ticker Awards for swearing, emceed as always by @bgzimmer. stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
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New on the blog: Asterisks for the f*n of it stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
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What's a word that is not a curse word, that is super fun to say like it's a curse word?
"Piss poor" and "not a pot to piss in."
From the Department of Don’t Pass Speculation Off as Fact
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ALT “An Old Woman at a Window Emptying a Chamber Pot,” anonymous, between 1700–24; oil on panel painting of an old woman, wearing a kerchief and ruffled collar, leaning out a window and emptying a chamber pot with the opening lines of the post superimposed
We covered similar ground in one of our earliest posts. stronglang.wordpress.com/201…
.@velocitytweets: How to use swear words in your fucking marketing velocitypartners.com/blog/ho…
“Words like squirt and scum don’t have quite the speed. We already know that skeet seems like a good word for shooting, and, well…”
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.@doctorow coined “enshittification” earlier this year. Now he's coined a brand extension: “enshitternet.” doctorow.medium.com/podcasti…
Our post on “enshittification.” stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
