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You Can Tell A Lot About A Person Based on Their Slang for Vomit, Money or Semen
You don’t need a charm school tutorial to know that, in polite society, bodily fluids and money matters are off limits. But the way all of us unsophisticated yokels get around this directive is to talk in code about it amongst ourselves. By Seth Graves.
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Merely a Warning that a Noun is Coming: The ‘Littlehampton Libels’
Bee Wilson reviews "The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England" by Christopher Hilliard.
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‘Fuck’-ing Around
Joan Acocella reviews “What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves“ by Benjamin K. Bergen and “In Praise of Profanity” by Michael Adams.
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The Necessity of Political Vulgarity
To deny the importance of vulgarity is to reject the revolutionary tradition… By Amber A’Lee Frost. (May 17, 2016)