Strong Language
A sweary blog about swearing.
- Roughly 10 posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 4 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
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 bubbled up …
Sounds dirty, doesn’t it, getting your palimpsest on? In fact, it’s the broadest sort of euphemism for swearing. It’s not total absence of profanity from a text or conversation. Profanity is there, legible in occasional …
The following is a guest post by James Callan. I wrote a quiz about “fuck” that ran on LearnedLeague the other day, which attracted 2401 players. LearnedLeague, for those who are unfamiliar, is an invitation-only …