Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim

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

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

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Just means there will be new swear words
- 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.
  
  As if the women who complain about the word cunt have never used dick or dickhead as an insult.
- Well it'll be awhile before the six letter f-word or the r word are allowed again

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