Global study finds Australians are third most prolific swearers

Australians swear online less frequently than Americans or the British, according to new research on how English-speaking countries use vulgar language.

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@NewtonMark I don't believe this for a second. If you swear to an American they look like you just stabbed their children. None of them say cunt.
@Kels_316 @NewtonMark yet when we say it, most Australians automatically envisage an American
@Kels_316 @NewtonMark was the study done by an American who couldn't even bring themselves to include "cunt" as a search term but gave extra weight to things like "heck" and "dang"?
@mike @Kels_316 @NewtonMark Samuel Jackson is a motherfucking outlier adn should not have been counted
@NewtonMark Fuckin embarrassing, that is.
@NewtonMark they might be right about online but I think the article is probably correct in that we swear a shitload fucking more in conversation, in public, the workplace and in culture

@NewtonMark 'a selection of 597 vulgar words'.

Mate, there's like 3, maybe 4 vulgar words. These cunts are getting marks for shit that's not even swearing

@Ex_spurt @NewtonMark I bet their are counting shit like "goddamn" and "fuck" - not even swears.
@Kels_316 @NewtonMark ticketty fucking boo probably gets a mention

@Ex_spurt @Kels_316 @NewtonMark my hot take: We police ourselves online now because both the poms and seppos can't handle our full force and we keep getting fucken banned.
Witness the puritan bullshit on YouTube where of you swear in the first 8 seconds they fucken demonetise the vid.

Either go all in or it's not fucken worth it.

@NewtonMark This'd be worth more if they released the words actually tested for. For all we know, they're counting the yanks for stuff like "gosh" and "darn", or discounting stuff we'd say that they wouldn't.
@NewtonMark
Third....
Hanging my head in fucking shame...
@NewtonMark I'm doing my fucking bit, ya cunt.
@NewtonMark Vulgar language "online" is a lazy survey.
@NewtonMark it’d be hilarious if it turned out that the study was confounded by a profanity filter somewhere along the line, and it still hasn’t been realised

For example, did they count the people in Scunthorpe as a huge false positive?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Scunthorpe problem - Wikipedia

@NewtonMark You’ve got to be fucking joking.