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

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

That's fucking glorious!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unalive and the k word would like to have a word with you about gen z

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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] 3 points 10 months ago

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