Religious swear words and homophobic phrases are among the most common profanity used in online blogs, new research suggests.
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Jan 17, 2018
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Comedian George Carlin's 1972 routine "the seven words you can never say on television" underlined his generation's rejection of the niceties and constraints of post-war American society. Seeing how the use of these swear ...
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Aug 03, 2017
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A new study from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL)—which creates automatic tools for signal analysis and linguistic assessment —uncovers how media communicates about ...
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Jul 31, 2017
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Warning: The following article contains explicit language.
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2017
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It's long been associated with anger and coarseness but profanity can have another, more positive connotation. Psychologists have learned that people who frequently curse are being more honest. Writing in the journal Social ...
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Jan 16, 2017
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Four letter words may offend you more depending on which television channel you watch, according to a recent study out of Florida State University and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Jan 26, 2011
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