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

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It’s also sometimes used as an extremely crass description of genitals. People calling it a cunt either tend to be a bit of a pig or someone who’s got one and swears like a sailor

[-] cammoblammo@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yet it wasn’t always that way. Once upon a time that was the normal, everyday ‘correct’ word for that part of the body. It was only a few hundred years ago we decided that Greek and Latin words were the only proper way to discuss anatomy.

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