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  2. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  3. What is 'yapping'? An old-school term has been reclaimed by ...

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    Sierra told Yahoo News that there is some evidence that the word “yap” specifically targeted women’s chatter. Social media users now seem to acknowledge that the term has been used to demean ...

  4. Motherfucker - Wikipedia

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    The title track, a live recording, is introduced by vocalist Rob Tyner shouting "And right now. right now. right now it's time to. kick out the jams, motherfuckers!". This was quickly pulled from stores, and an edited version was released with the words "brothers and sisters" overdubbed on the offending word.

  5. No 'rizz': School accused of banning Gen Alpha slang

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    An Iowa school is catching flak for having no “rizz.”. A teacher in a school district near the Nebraska border is being accused of banning the word short for charisma along with over two dozen ...

  6. Criticism of the Pledge of Allegiance - Wikipedia

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    Alexandre, No. 05-81142 (S.D. Fla. May 31, 2006), "A federal district court in Florida ruled that a 1942 state law requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, even though the law allows students to opt out, because they can only do so with written ...

  7. The historical origins of 6 swear words - AOL

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  8. Hypoalgesic effect of swearing - Wikipedia

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    Researchers from Keele University conducted a number of initial experiments in 2009 to examine the analgesic properties of swearing. Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston published "Swearing as a Response to Pain" in NeuroReport, finding that some people could hold their hands in ice water for twice as long as usual if they swore compared to if they used neutral words. [3]

  9. Do you swear too much at work? Where is the line? - AOL

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    So is the world of finance – you only have to watch a few stress-inducing minutes of banking drama Industry to get a taste. The art world, so very different to the City in most other respects ...