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

  • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    211 months ago

    It’s also sometimes used as an extremely crass description of genitals. People calling it a cunt either tend to be a bit of a pig or someone who’s got one and swears like a sailor

    • @cammoblammo@lemmy.world
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      311 months ago

      Yet it wasn’t always that way. Once upon a time that was the normal, everyday ‘correct’ word for that part of the body. It was only a few hundred years ago we decided that Greek and Latin words were the only proper way to discuss anatomy.