swearing
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George Carlin versus Vladimir Putin
The New Yorker pulled this from Pushkin’s “The Wagon of Life;” it contains swearing: At dawn we jump inside the wagon. Happy to break our necks like glass, We scorn life’s hedonistic languor, And yell “Man, fuck it! Just haul…
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Twitter Can Help You Steer Clear Of Potty Mouths
The Atlantic covers a recent study that uses twitter to analyze where the United State’s most profanity prone individuals reside: “The Ukrainian-based web development firm Vertaline, aiming to answer that question, scanned tweets posted from across 462 specific locations in the U.S. The team…
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Swearing Firsts in the New Yorker
The New Yorker’s history of expletive usage and pioneering is recounted by the Awl in list-form. Times have changed, along with the editors at the New Yorker and this in turn, has changed how often profanity appears in the magazine.…
