"Shakespeare’s strongest language isn’t even voiced in English" – John Kelly on lewd language lessons in Henry V:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/pardon-my-french-lewd-language-lessons-in-henry-v/
#StrongLanguage
"It’s not enough to swear; one must swear precisely."
Michael Adams on how Mick Herron uses profanity to build character and narrative in the Slough House series of spy novels:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/jackson-lamb-and-the-slow-horses-learn-how-to-spell-profanity/
#swearing #profanity #MickHerron #books #SpyFiction #StrongLanguage
#fiction #writing
"Chitty fucking Bang Bang", "Jesus screaming fuck!", "Jackabloodynory", "supercalifragilisticfuckmealadocious"
Michael Adams continues his series on swearing in the Slough House spy novels, focusing here on "infixing and interposing as a means of characterization":
#swearing #profanity #books #SpyFiction #StrongLanguage #fiction #MickHerron
"Mick Herron's series of spy novels...revel in bad language, which is necessary to its comedy and to the development of character and narrative cohesion."
Michael Adams on the Slough House series, new on the Strong Language blog:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/espionage-novels-that-give-a-fuck-about-profanity/
#swearing #profanity #books #SpyFiction #espionage #LiteraryCriticism #StrongLanguage #fiction
"We know the characters by their swearing." Michael Adams on Mick Herron's Slough House novels. New on the Strong Language blog:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/espionage-novels-that-give-a-fuck-about-profanity/
#swearing #books #SpyFiction #espionage #profanity #LiteraryCriticism #LitCrit #StrongLanguage #fiction
If you're wondering about "bee's dick", well, that's only natural. @bgzimmer has the buzz on the Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/a-new-cooking-measurement/
Related: an old @stronglang post on multilingual swearing:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/christ-fucking-shit-merde-on-the-variable-power-of-multilingual-swearing/
#swearing #language #linguistics #multilingualism #bilingualism #profanity #StrongLanguage
Fun, end of day read: the saga of Hendrix, a blue-and-gold macaw with a real gift for strong language.
“One day he will call you baby and the next day he’s calling you a...hmm. MFer I guess is the politest way to type it out.”
#Quangobaud #Wordpress #ScienceFiction
releasing this bit early as I've only got two parts left to draft but the rest still needs to wait till it's all complete for a continuity read-through
it's the penultimate chapter but the conclusion of the story in which you might be able to tell my mood
update 2025-07-30 this story is actually being de-listed by Wordpress! Y'all should read it just for that!
“Despite consistently enthusiastic reviewer comments, no editors have yet accepted our work for publication—it seems to be the type of paper that editors are nervous to touch. Currently, the work is under review for a fourth time, for possible inclusion in the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), in a paper titled “Oh F**k! How Do People Feel About Robots That Leverage Profanity?”
#stronglanguage #robotics #sociology
https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/114675943485797239
Need more profanity in your Friday? @Fritinancy has compiled a bunch of swearing-related links on the Strong Language blog:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/sweary-links-27/
Cursing robots, Romans, racers, and more. @Fritinancy has a new batch of sweary links on the Strong Language blog:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/sweary-links-27/
"You can’t join if you can’t swear." New post at @stronglang on swearing as a childhood rite of passage in wartime London:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/swearing-as-a-rite-of-passage/
#swearing #profanity #film #language #JohnBoorman #WWII #StrongLanguage
Swearing as a rite of passage. A new post by @stancarey:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/swearing-as-a-rite-of-passage/
#swearing #profanity #film #JohnBoorman #WWII #StrongLanguage
**Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world**
“_Australians might well be disheartened when they discover that they are not the top users of profanity among English-speaking countries. Their deep national attachment to the vernacular dates back to the original mix of slang, dialect and underworld jargon that gave rise to Australian English — fueled by anti-authoritarian sentiment, the colloquial part of the language expanded to become the feature that best distinguished the established citizen (or old chum) from the stranger (or new chum).”
Schweinberger, M. and Burridge, K. (2025) 'Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world,' Lingua, 321, p. 103946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103946.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Linguistics #Swearing #Vulgarity #StrongLanguage #English #Language #Academia #Academics @linguistics
Serving Kant: @Wordorigins on Miriana Conte's "clearly intentional" – and risquée – pun at #Eurovision, in a new post on the Strong Language blog:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/serving-kant/
#songs #PopCulture #MirianaConte #swearing #profanity #puns #StrongLanguage
**Linguistics expert explains why the c-word 'still has the ability to shock'**
_“The sounds are blunt, there are only four sounds in it, it's a very short sharp word. It's normally delivered with quite a lot of emphasis that it's being used as a profanity and for that reason, that still has the ability to shock.”_
#English #StrongLanguage #Words #Language #Linguistics @linguistics
"How did smut get so dirty? Simple: It was never clean." But did you know that its filth was originally botanical?
New on the Strong Language blog, @Fritinancy pays tribute to smut and the Tom Lehrer song of that title, now 60 years old: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/smut/
#TomLehrer #music #etymology #smut #PopCulture #songs #StrongLanguage
Nancy Friedman has an enlightening and safe-for-work discussion of "smut" over on the Strong Language blog
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