Hashtags are like expletives, don't salt the earth with them
Hashtags are like expletives, don't salt the earth with them
@zachleat The one that was nice and actually did the work? #expletive
RIP
#Melania’s multimillion dollar #regret, #Biden’s #expletive #rant & #RonDeSantis’ final #humiliation.
#DarkBrandon Rises
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
Forgive my typographical swearror…
When I was seven (oh dear Heaven!)
A dozen, or at least eleven
Variations I had heard
In usage of this useful word.
I made a pact with my best friend,
Through thick and thin, until the end,
Never to tattle when one said it.
Later, in Salinger’s book, I read it.
#poetry #smallpoems #poem #riddlepoems #language #literature #slang #expletive #colorfulmetaphors #profanity #poetrycommunity
#Expletive!
The sound of swearing:
Are there universal patterns in profanity?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-022-02202-0
Reveals that not all sounds are equally suitable for profanity, and demonstrate that sound symbolism is more pervasive than has previously been appreciated
Why do swear words sound the way they do? Swear words are often thought to have sounds that render them especially fit for purpose, facilitating the expression of emotion and attitude. To date, however, there has been no systematic cross-linguistic investigation of phonetic patterns in profanity. In an initial, pilot study we explored statistical regularities in the sounds of swear words across a range of typologically distant languages. The best candidate for a cross-linguistic phonemic pattern in profanity was the absence of approximants (sonorous sounds like l, r, w and y). In Study 1, native speakers of various languages (Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Spanish; N = 215) judged foreign words less likely to be swear words if they contained an approximant. In Study 2 we found that sanitized versions of English swear words – like darn instead of damn – contain significantly more approximants than the original swear words. Our findings reveal that not all sounds are equally suitable for profanity, and demonstrate that sound symbolism – wherein certain sounds are intrinsically associated with certain meanings – is more pervasive than has previously been appreciated, extending beyond denoting single concepts to serving pragmatic functions.
#Expletive
The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return
Study has identified two tipping points for the Greenland Ice Sheet
Multistability and Transient Response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL101827