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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"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…
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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?
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Does "raw-dog" (vb.) now mean "just do something without caring or trying or preparing too hard"? Because that is a semantic development I was NOT expecting.
I had a student say to me "I just raw-dogged your final. I was surprised you gave me an A"
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“It’s a hundred and fuck degrees outside” (very hot; @ITIL_Prince, 2010). #quotes #memes #Fword #fuck #weather cc @stronglang 2/2
...fuck dat... (2012)
...fuck that... (2013)
...fuck this... (2012)
...fuck this shit... (2012)
...fuck you... (2011)
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Source (the blogpost /article is well worth a read for any with an interest in this topic): colinmorris.github.io/blog/c…
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The important news from Apple's WWDC! "ducking hell" is gone!
bbc.com/news/technology-6582…
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How my days work:
"Hmm, _hate-fuck_ is pretty common; I wonder if there's any good evidence for _love-fuck_? Probably nothing real." <looks around>
[four hours later, have a complete entry for _love-fuck_ with a dozen examples going back to the 1880s]
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Dear Stephanie Miller of the @StephMillerShow,
You cited an aritcle, yesterday, that says people who curse are more honest, and have better mental health, then you dumped a caller for cursing. Hello..Hello? Can you hear me?
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Swearing could actually be an emotional release valve and studies show that people who swear like a sailor are more honest and more intelligent. discovermagazine.com/health/…
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New from me on @stronglang: Remembering Billy "The Kid" Emerson, who brought "squatitives" to the masses with his 1955 song "Red Hot" ("My gal is red hot / Your gal ain't doodly-squat"). stronglang.wordpress.com/202…
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Gotta be the biggest news week for the c-word in years
nypost.com/2023/04/26/espn-i…
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The makers of Boggle quietly changed the arrangements on the letter cubes in 1987 so that all the Fs and Ks appeared on the same cube, making it impossible to make words containing both of those letters, possibly to ban the F-bomb. nowiknow.com/the-party-game-…
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Enshittification stronglang.wordpress.com/202… via @stronglang @Fritinancy