Books on Swearing

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Post by whocansay » Thu, May 16, 2019, 3:13 AM UTC

Books on Swearing
fivebooks.com

Re: Books on Swearing

#2

Post by masonic » Thu, May 16, 2019, 5:54 AM UTC

All book links on this site are Amazon affiliate links (tag=fivebooks001-20), hidden by URL redirection.

Re: Books on Swearing

#3

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 16, 2019, 10:55 PM UTC

masonic wrote: post #2

All book links on this site are Amazon affiliate links (tag=fivebooks001-20), hidden by URL redirection.

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Re: Books on Swearing

#4

Post by kbouck » Thu, May 16, 2019, 10:57 PM UTC

Roger's Profanisaurus:

http://viz.co.uk/category/rogers-profanisaurus/

Re: Books on Swearing

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Post by thrower123 » Thu, May 16, 2019, 11:03 PM UTC

masonic wrote: post #2

All book links on this site are Amazon affiliate links (tag=fivebooks001-20), hidden by URL redirection.

And? Someone ought to make that percentage, or do you prefer to give it all to Amazon?

Re: Books on Swearing

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Post by happytoexplain » Thu, May 16, 2019, 11:04 PM UTC

masonic wrote: post #2

All book links on this site are Amazon affiliate links (tag=fivebooks001-20), hidden by URL redirection.

Is that system being abused in some way?

Re: Books on Swearing

#7

Post by simonebrunozzi » Thu, May 16, 2019, 11:30 PM UTC

Book a flight to Rome, learn Italian, learn Roman dialect, and then you'll know what real swearing looks like :)

Re: Books on Swearing

#8

Post by camjohnson26 » Thu, May 16, 2019, 11:39 PM UTC

People to seem to swear casually a lot these days. Swear words have an outsized impact compared to their literal meaning and I wonder if overusing them hurts our ability to express true shock and disgust. On the flip side people also tend to overuse positive words like awesome, amazing, etc. The holocaust was fucking awful, your junior developer’s code was just bad.

Re: Books on Swearing

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Post by 0_gravitas » Fri, May 17, 2019, 12:18 AM UTC

camjohnson26 wrote: post #8

People to seem to swear casually a lot these days. Swear words have an outsized impact compared to their literal meaning and I wonder if overusing them hurts our ability to express true shock and disgust. On the flip side people also tend to overuse positive words like awesome, amazing, etc. The holocaust was fucking awful, your junior developer’s code was just bad.

I've always seen taking away the actual punch of the words as an unintentional benefit. To be quite honest, I think someone can more concisely and personally convey shock and disgust without using any 'swear words' at all.

Re: Books on Swearing

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Post by majos » Fri, May 17, 2019, 12:35 AM UTC

camjohnson26 wrote: post #8

People to seem to swear casually a lot these days. Swear words have an outsized impact compared to their literal meaning and I wonder if overusing them hurts our ability to express true shock and disgust. On the flip side people also tend to overuse positive words like awesome, amazing, etc. The holocaust was fucking awful, your junior developer’s code was just bad.

I'm in my 20s and everybody I know regularly and casually uses profanity, even the R-rated stuff. Older people of HN: is this anecdotally something that decreases with age, or is our generation genuinely more profane?

I would think having kids/friends who have kids would cut it down.