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

    • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, they’re shit - pissbaby, chucklefuck, all that other saccharine bullshit. Just call a cunt a cunt and be done with it. I know it’s offensive to women’s wonderful genitals but it’s so percussive.

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        11 months ago

        As if the women who complain about the word cunt have never used dick or dickhead as an insult.