Why Are Bad Words Bad?
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Published 2013-11-28
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Music by youtube.com/JakeChudnow
Marchex Institute study: blog.marchex.com/2013/05/15/marchex-data-reveals-o…
Canada's most vulgar city: www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/23/canadas-most-vulg…
"Bad" etymology: www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bad
"Grawlixes": www.fastcodesign.com/1673017/quimps-plewds-and-gra…
Mort Walker - The Lexicon of Comicana: www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lexicon-Comicana-Mort-Walker/…
First use of grawlixes: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2457
Slate's Lexicon Valley: "A Brief History of Swearing": www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/201…
1 Kilohertz censor beep: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleep_censor
Steven Pinker lecture: • Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought:...
Swearing history: www.salon.com/2013/05/11/the_modern_history_of_swe…
remembering taboo words: citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?rep=rep1&ty…
Swearing in the brain:
blog.scienceinsociety.northwestern.edu/2013/02/a-s…
www.howstuffworks.com/swearing4.htm
no words should be banned? bigthink.com/against-the-new-taboo/no-words-should…
Mythbusters' Swearing Test: • MythBusters - Jamie Swearing Test | N...
Coprolalia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolalia
Lalochezia: medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/lalochezi…
7 dirty words: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words
Swearing is changing:
www.thetakeaway.org/story/305603-swearing-changing…
www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/07/…
Swearing in the future: io9.com/http-0-media-cdn-foolz-us-ffuuka-board-tg-…
Swearing behaviour on Twitter: www.business2community.com/infographics/swearing-b…
McKay Hatch - The No Cussing Club: nocussing.com/
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All Comments (21)
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POV: You are in prison, and your cell mate introduces himself
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Elementary school teacher logic: Shut up= a curse word
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"Hey, Vsauce, Michael here! This is the most secure prison in the world, or is it?"
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Human: emits sound* Other human: big sad
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Youtube: "You can't make an educational video and be demonetized" V-sauce: "Observe"
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It took me 4 minutes to notice: Why are you in a prison?
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"Schizo" is definitely on its way to being a regular insult
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I learned english as a teen on the internet, and to me curse words have no weight, I curse all the time, it's what I learned from let's plays lol. As opposed to my native language, when I hear a curse word in Spanish I feel a physical reaction, it feels so much more intense, like it has more weight and aggression, since I learned them as a child and I was told not to use them.
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“Mothertrucker dude, that hurt like a buttcheek on a stick.”
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Imagine stubbing ur toe and yelling "DEPRESSED"
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His videos are truly timeless
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How was camera quality this good 10 years ago
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"Even the word bad, can be a bad word." Youtube: write that down write that down
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“Badder words “ I think my English teacher just had a heart attack .
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Vsauce: swearing makes up 0.7% of our vocabulary The crow i taught to curse:
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I love how Mass is among the least likely to use bad words on a call but also among the least likely to use please and thank you.
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Swearing makes up 0.7% of our vocabulary 12 year old COD players: I beg to differ
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imagine saying "oh defecate I forgot my homework"
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Those "bad" words prediction were on point
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why is this man answering all life’s questions
