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Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, language lovers. Active: @[email protected] on Mastodon; stronglang on Bluesky
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Joined December 2014
New on the blog: @Fritinancy on “bitchin’,” which rode a wave of surfer slang to become a widespread adjective, interjection , and brand name.
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A lot of surfer slang consists of in-crowd jargon or outmoded antiques: grommet (an eager young surfer), hodad (a non-surfer; a poser), log (a heavy surfboard), Noah (a shark). But other terms that…
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"Bumbaclart" is a pronunciation spelling (for non-rhotic speakers) of Jamaican patois "bomboclaat"/"bumbaclot." See @sesquiotic's @stronglang post for background on the term.
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When you go to Twitter to see if “sco pa tu manaa” is over and they just shifted it to “bomboclaat.” After wishing all the people posting “sco pa tu manaa” would just go the fuck to sleep, I was re…
Fuck the Rock n Roll hall of fame its full of BUMBACLARTS LG x
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And the American Dialect Society’s “Word of the Year” is… Enshittification — a “sadly apt” term, as the lexicographer @bgzimmer put it, for when an online platform goes to shit Ahem. https://t.co/N175JrFfSQ
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@stronglang "Enshittification" was the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year. Popularized by @doctorow in December 2022, but not first used at this time, as this #enshittification thread shows. #shit #WOTY2023
My Word Of The Year choice was "Zionism," after the Hamas-Israel conflict. However, when @americandialect meets, you get choices like this. It was not even a #woty23 finalist. cc @bgzimmer @GrantBarrett @btaylorblake @EsnpcB
https://t.co/7yCx7rQLnZ
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It's time for the annual @stronglang Tucker Awards for excellence in swearing! Featuring @doctorow @jessearmstrong1 @cordjefferson @jfreewright @TerryMatalas @rebecca_roache @JessZafarris @BodyForWife @oliviarodrigo @offspring @JasmineForUS @chrissyteigen
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We’ve logged yet another fucking year here at Strong Language, so that can mean only one thing: It’s time for our annual awards recognizing excellence in swearing. It’s our ninth …
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Happy new year, mofos! Time for our year-end tradition: the annual Ticker Awards for swearing, emceed as always by @bgzimmer.
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We’ve logged yet another fucking year here at Strong Language, so that can mean only one thing: It’s time for our annual awards recognizing excellence in swearing. It’s our ninth …
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What's a word that is not a curse word, that is super fun to say like it's a curse word?
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Let the Congressional Record show that the gentlelady from Texas said “in the shitter.”
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We covered similar ground in one of our earliest posts.
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On my blog, Fritinancy, I’ve been documenting the commercial use of vulgarisms and near-profanity for several years. I’ve written about Effen vodka, “Look at the booking view,R…
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"Piss poor" and "not a pot to piss in."
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“If you don't know what AF means, you're SOL." - @petersagal on @waitwait
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.@velocitytweets: How to use swear words in your fucking marketing
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Some people think it's never okay to use profanity in marketing. But they just might be missing a powerful weapon.
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“Words like squirt and scum don’t have quite the speed. We already know that skeet seems like a good word for shooting, and, well…”
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.@doctorow coined “enshittification” earlier this year. Now he's coined a brand extension: “enshitternet.”
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The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet.
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.@bgzimmer wrote for @LanguageLog about obscenicons from 1901:
.@stronglang Can't remember when the use of symbols for obscenities began - wasn’t there a discussion a few months back - but this, from Harry Hershfield's ‘Abie the Agent’ May 16 1914, must be quite early (the subject is a car):
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