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Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim (www.theguardian.com)

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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] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Strange that all the blocked words in the Lemmy keywords filter is still showing up here. Thought it would be taken out. Probably filters posts only. :-(

But now got a good list of words and users known to avoid in future. :-)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What a weird individual you are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not sure if good or bad comment. :-0

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure about other instances, but lemmy.zip creates an automatic report when "slur" words are used, and then instance admins and community moderators can decide how to deal with them. Context matters.