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Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social & @stancarey.bsky.social
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · 6d
Sweary cartoon by Graeme Keyes, with nice use of grawlixes/obscenicons
Single-frame, black and white cartoon showing an angry crowd at the Ryder Cup, which a sign calls "Derider Cup". They're waving U.S. flags and shouting profanities, shown as "F**k you!...", "@★!*", "@★💀! fatso", and "☠".
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Martha Barnette @marthabarnette.bsky.social · 13d
I somehow missed “groksucker” until just now.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 13d
“Clanker” is a derogatory term used to insult AI products such as delivery robots, therapist chatbots and automated servants. Our future robotic overlords might take, writes Sarah Ogilvie.
Is it okay to say clanker?
Artificial intelligence won’t be offended by this new slur. But our future robotic overlords might take a different view
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Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social · 9d
Word of the week: Chum. Bonus: photos from my recent trip to Toronto. | ht @misterslang.bsky.social @sesquiotic.bsky.social fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-th...
Word of the week: Chum
A visit to Toronto inspires a slang investigation. Plus: Toronto street photos!
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Grigory Lukin ✨️is on sub✨️ @grigorylukin.bsky.social · 13d
Free pro tip: when using Google Translate from English to French, if you want to switch from informal-you to formal-you, end the sentence with "sir." To achieve the opposite, end it with "you bastard."

E.g., "You had one job, you bastard." (I'm rehearsing my lines en route to meet my landlord. 🫠)
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · 13d
Not to my knowledge, unfortunately
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Diva of the Dark 🎃🫶👠👑🥩 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 13d
Really Montana?
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · 13d
FTA: Sweary maps 2: Swear harder. @stancarey.bsky.social presents @jwgrieve.bsky.social's heat maps of swearword use in the USA
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Heat map of the USA for the word "fuck". It's deep red all along the east and west coasts and the southern border states. Deep blue inland, and mixed (yellow, light blue) along the border with Canada.
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · 13d
FTA: Sweary maps 2: Swear harder. @stancarey.bsky.social presents @jwgrieve.bsky.social's heat maps of swearword use in the USA
stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/s... #maps
Heat map of the USA for the word "fuck". It's deep red all along the east and west coasts and the southern border states. Deep blue inland, and mixed (yellow, light blue) along the border with Canada.
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · 13d
FTA: What in the sweet suffering blue holy ever-loving literal shitting fuck? @ivacheung.com looks at how we intensify a popular phrase: stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/w...
When fucks get real
What the fuck has become so commonplace that, as our own Nancy Friedman pointed out, marketers are no longer shy about alluding to it. But its ubiquity has meant a loss of its former power, and we’…
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · 21d
Yeah, fuck the haters
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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 24d
Today in the NY Times, some old guy says that we all curse a lot now, and maybe that's why America is so bad:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
Opinion | Why Does Everybody Swear All The Time Now?
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · 21d
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · 22d
FTA: @voxhib.bsky.social on the absolutely not feckless Irish politicians stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/u...
Unparliamentary Language: Irish Edition (Sweet Focal)
It’s that most wonderful time of the year with the usual outpourings of peace and goodwill to all (wo)men – no more so than those noble elected representatives of the Irish houses of pa…
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22d
The character's name was written in English as "Puck-Man", but when Namco localized the game for the United States they changed it to "P
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · 24d
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New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social · 24d
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · Sep 8
FTA: @ivacheung.com on fiddling and diddling stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/h...
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle
When you’ve already started saying fuck—whether it’s in “I don’t give a fuck” or just a good ol’ naked “Fuck!”—but realize you’re within earshot of delicate sensibilities, fiddle (or fiddlesticks!)…
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · Sep 2
FTA: @mashedradish.bsky.social , fucking A! stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/w...
What the fuck is the “A” in “fucking A”?
Swearing loves the alphabet – or euphemisms for swearing do, at least. To avoid saying fuck outright, we might just drop an f bomb, sidestep with the f word, or register ‘initial’ react…
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Qsy @qsy.bsky.social · Aug 31
The Académie Française pushing to replace watersport with "control of the piss" was not on my bingo card for today.
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Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social · Aug 29
Every player what now?

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Navy blue children's T-shirt from the retailer Mango. It bears the motto EVERY PLAYER COUNTS, with a tennis ball replacing the "O" in COUNTS
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · Aug 29
FTA: fuck sickness, by @fritinancy.bsky.social stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/f...
#FuckCancer
In The Emperor of All Maladies, his best-selling 2010 “biography of cancer,” Siddhartha Mukherjee tells the story of Fanny Rosenow, a breast cancer survivor who in the early 1950s wanted to place a…
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · Aug 29
A black and white photo of a sign that reads “watch for flying saucers and skanks”
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Aug 29
oh. don't call it that
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Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social · Aug 28
I wrote about Lipslut and other sluts for @stronglang.bsky.social in 2019: stronglang.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/s...
Sluts
Last week, in response to the passage of draconian anti-abortion laws in several U.S. states, a Los Angeles–based makeup company announced that for four days it would be donating 100 percent of its…
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · Aug 26
FTA: Anne Gilson LaLonde's first appearance on Strong Language talking about trademarks stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/h...
Having a ball (or two) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
I’m very excited to be a new contributor to Strong Language, after my two previous salacious guest posts on scandalous trademarks. I’ve been the author of Gilson on Trademarks, a treati…
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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · Aug 18
FTA: @markpetersjokes.bsky.social asks “What’s this bullfuck?” stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/a...
A bunch of bullfuck
Writing a book like Bullshit: A Lexicon—a look at words, common and obscure, for bullshit and bullshitters—was fun as fuck, as you might imagine. But one thing that’s not so much fun is coming acro…
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Søren Sandager Sørensen @sorensorensen.bsky.social · Aug 13
Apologies to all syntacticians, but please take a look at my fresh article called "Fuck syntax and fucking syntax in the borrowing of swearwords for assessments in #Danish" - about the interactional functions of "fuck" and "fucking" in various assessments! #EMCA

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Fuck syntax and fucking syntax in the borrowing of swearwords for assessments in Danish | Nordic Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Fuck syntax and fucking syntax in the borrowing of swearwords for assessments in Danish
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