Strong Language

Strong Language

@stronglang.bsky.social

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 & @fritinancy.bsky.social

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Nancy Friedman
@fritinancy.bsky.social

From the @stronglang.bsky.social archive: What a shitsow! stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/w...

stronglang.wordpress.comWhat a shitshow!Here are some of the things I’ve seen characterized as a shitshow (or a shit show) during the last 115 days: A Q-and-A session involving the ride-hailing company Uber The British Labour Party The B…
Effin' Birds@effinbirds.com

TORONTO: on October 17th I’ll be signing and selling books, cards and calendars at The Toronto Shitshow at Parkdale Hall. Free admission, but there’s also a VIP ticket that includes a rare Effin’ Birds book and pin. Get your holiday shopping done early (and personalized!) torontoshitshow.com

Strong Language
@stronglang.bsky.social

Ucking shi! It's a decade since @stancarey.bsky.social wrote this for Strong Language and nearly two decades since Flight of the Conchords was aired stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/f...

stronglang.wordpress.comFlight of the Conchords uckin’ with my shi-New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, consisting of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, had a two-season TV series in 2007–09 full of inspired parody and goofy adventures. The show’s langu…
Strong Language
@stronglang.bsky.social

Blogs fucking rule.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Blogs so didn't suck at scale that they, arguably and defensibly, ate the news environment and publishing. We are still living in the age of the blogger, present company included. To be clear. Your influencer/independent journo/networked politico etc etc -- blogging.

Strong Language
@stronglang.bsky.social

New paper on swearing online! "Findings demonstrate that while it remains important to examine who swears online, it is also critical to examine other dimensions of variability, including where, when, how, and with whom swear words are used." academic.oup.com/dsh/article/...

academic.oup.comSwearing online: exploring dimensions of variability in born-digital dataAbstract. Swearing involves the use of words interpreted as obscene, derogatory, or offensive, and so can have a significant societal impact in the digital

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pauline kael bot
@paulinekaelbot.bsky.social

I've been referred to in print as a "cunt" by people I'd praised. The first time was by John Huston. We'd been friends and I'd defended him for years. But I wrote that NIGHT OF THE IGUANA was a lousy movie. So he called me a "cunt" to an interviewer. (1989)

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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com

In my considered opinion, so much created slang/cursing comes across as cringe precisely because it doesn't sound like anything anyone would ever have coming out of their mouth, this especially true of adding/changing letters in "fuck"

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com

I gave up and just instituted a rule that people were allowed to say “oh my god” in a pantheistic society because “oh my gods” just hits my ear wrong.

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Catherynne M. Valente
@catvalente.bsky.social

At this point, JK Rowling has spent more time and energy writing about how much she hates a vulnerable part of the human condition that never did one goddamned fucking thing to harm her than she ever did writing Harry Potter.