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Swearing is becoming more widely acceptable, linguistics experts claim (www.theguardian.com)

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

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure about other instances, but lemmy.zip creates an automatic report when "slur" words are used, and then instance admins and community moderators can decide how to deal with them. Context matters.