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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. Defamation - Wikipedia

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    It argued that insulting language should be tackled via education, and not in the courts (with the exception of hate speech). According to the article, 180 prosecutors urged the Legislative Yuan to decriminalize defamation, or at least limit it to private prosecutions (in order to reserve public resources for major crimes, rather than private ...

  4. Linguistic discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Their way of speaking the language is considered the higher class, emphasizing the idea that how one speaks a language is related to social, economic, and political status. [ 10 ] As sociolinguistics evolved, scholars began to recognize the need for a more nuanced framework to analyze the complex interactions between language and social identity.

  5. Language death - Wikipedia

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    Linguicide (also known as language genocide, physical language death, and biological language death): occurs when all or almost all native speakers of that language die because of natural disasters, wars etc. Linguicide usually refers to forced language loss through assimilation or destruction of the identity of a certain group of people. [13] [14]

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  7. Profane - Wikipedia

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    Profane may refer to: Profane (religion) , a lack of respect for things that are held to be sacred Profanity , the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes

  8. Rockets' Ime Udoka fined $50,000 for profane language ... - AOL

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    Udoka's fine comes nearly a year after he was docked $25,000 for his language directed at a referee during a loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.. Additionally, Şengün was fined $15,000 for “directing ...

  9. Dan Campbell drops profane words while discussing Lions ... - AOL

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    Dan Campbell is widely considered one of the most passionate coaches in the NFL. The fourth-year Lions coach put his emotions on full display during a recent radio interview.