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2. Pop Quiz: Why Can't 'Swear Words' Be Said on TV? - AOL

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   Sitcoms and family shows have been making substitutions like "sugar" and "fudge" for expletives and curse words for quite some time. Newsy itself has a standards team that deals with that question ...

3. 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 ...

4. Grawlix - Wikipedia

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   Grawlix in a speech bubble. Grawlix (/ ˈ ɡ r ɔː l ɪ k s /) or obscenicon is the use of typographical symbols to replace profanity.Mainly used in cartoons and comics, [1] [2] it is used to get around language restrictions or censorship in publishing.

5. Category:Profanity by language - Wikipedia

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   Cantonese profanity (2 P) E. English profanity (65 P) F. Finnish profanity (8 P) French profanity (4 P) G. German profanity (7 P) P. Polish profanity (6 P) R. Russian ...

6. Swear words in different languages lack similar sounds, study ...

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   Swear words are thought to have sounds that help facilitate the expression of emotion and attitude, researchers say. Swear words in different languages lack similar sounds, study suggests Skip to ...

7. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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   The list was not an official enumeration of forbidden words, but rather were concocted by Carlin to flow better in a comedy routine. Nonetheless, a radio broadcast featuring these words led to a Supreme Court 5–4 decision in 1978 in FCC v.

8. See which words Gordon Ramsay uses as alternative swears - AOL

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   Now, we all know Chef Gordon Ramsay loves his curse words -- but fortunately, Gordon's children haven't inherited his notoriously dirty mouth. Instead, he told Jimmy Kimmel he taught them some ...

9. Lists of pejorative terms for people - Wikipedia

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   List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with negative connotations; Category:Sex- and gender ...