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**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

How frequent is vulgar language in online discourse across 20 different English-speaking regions?

Corpus linguistics has the answer. Image and paper by Schweinberger & Burridge, 2025: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103946

#swearing #profanity #language #linguistics #CorpusLinguistics #research #EnglishLanguage #vulgarity

Bar chart from the paper, showing the relative frequency of vulgar tokens among all tokens across regions in the corpus data. United States easily tops the chart, at 0.036%, followed by Great Britain (0.025%), Australia (0.022%), Singapore (0.021%), New Zealand (0.02%), Malaysia (0.019%), Ireland (0.019%), Jamaica (0.017%), Canada (0.017%), Nigeria (0.016%), Philippines (0.015%), Sri Lanka (0.012%), South Africa (0.012%), Kenya (0.011%), Pakistan (0.01%), India (0.01%), Hong Kong (0.009%), Tanzania (0.008%), Ghana (0.008%), and Bangladesh (0.007%).

#politics #trump #election #vulgarity

2020 election

“And then they rigged the election, and then I said, ‘You know what I’ll do? I’ll run again and I’ll shove it up their ass,’” Trump told the audience.
“If they would’ve left us alone, and wouldn’t have cheated on the election, and wouldn’t have rigged it, I would’ve been retired right now. I would’ve been happily doing something else, and instead they have me for four more years, can you believe that?” Trump continued.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195469/trump-crude-rant-kennedy-center-dinner-speech?utm_source=newsletter

Circus Maximus

Self explanatory!

#donaldtrump #clown #crybaby #sociopath #vulgarity #constantdrama
#digitalart #satire #usa #politics

@TonyStark @mmalc That’s how #DougFord, #Con premier of Ontario Canada, was given a majority government. 18% voted for him, 57% chose not to vote at all. So the #MostCorruptGovernmentInTheHistoryOfCanada was born. #VoterApathy #Misinformation #Disinformation #Vulgarity and #SlanderousRhetoric are the tools of trade of our Conservative Party. Their leader #PierrePoilievre has rightly earned the moniker #MapleMAGA. And our american-owned #CdnMedia fiddles.

#Trump’s campaign against #Harris, the sitting VP, featured a torrent of attacks steeped in #sexism, #SexualViolence & #vulgarity.

Harris’s loss is disheartening enough, but for the country to elect someone who has made his #disrespect for #women clear is basically kicking you when you’re already down.

Surveys conducted before the election pointed to a wide — & perhaps historic — gender gap in the support for the two candidates, w/most women supporting Harris & most men supporting Trump.

Trump’s freakshow continues unabated

#Trump is hellbent to avoid any sane-washing by media smoothing over his #viciousness & #vulgarity

His call for an elaborate #execution of political opponent, a right-wing #Republican of highest partisan pedigree, is his final answer to those who quibble about his intentions

His #fascist #freakshow in Madison Square Garden & his firing squad fantasy are warning to #democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/02/trumps-behavior-election

#Election2024 #tyrant #dictator

#Trump vs #KamalaHarris
#Nonsense vs #CommonSense
#Insanity vs #Sanity
#Problems vs #Solutions
#Chaos vs #Security
#Criminal vs #Ethical
#SexualAbuser vs #WomensRights
#Discrimination vs #Equality
#Disinformation vs #Reality
#Vulgarity vs #Decency
#Autocracy vs #Democracy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/22/trump-harris-campaign-strategy-comments/

“VP #Harris is fighting to make sure Americans can get ahead and be safe from #GunViolence & to restore & protect the #RightsOfWomen. #Trump, on the other hand, could enact the #extreme & #dangerous #Project2025 agenda if elected, which would roll back our #rights & #freedoms.

“We can choose a #future for our #children & grandchildren based on #decency, #respect & #morality — or succumb to the #crudeness & #vulgarity of Trump & #JDVance & the #FarRight agenda they would champion.

#Harris2024

Алекс Чиннек — это запредельная пошлятина. Если вы хотели увидеть худшего художника XXI века, то заявка от Алекса Чиннека весьма и весьма сильна. Кандидат намбэ уан: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/alex-chinneck-sculptures/ ⦾ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chinneck #AlexChinneck #worstartists #vulgarity #sculpture #gagart

#RoundSparrowSucks

#Vulgarity #Terrible #Badwords #AgainstGod #Dogma #KevinSmithFanClub #KevinSmithProtestClub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjZPFBD6JU

A quotation from Martin, Judith:

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It is wrong to wear diamonds before dusk, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/martin-judith/64275/

#quote #quotes #quotation #class #etiquette #fashion #jewelry #vulgarity

A quotation from La Bruyere, Jean de:

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Nothing is meaner and more typical of the mob, than to speak in glowing terms of those whom one held in little account before their rise to eminence.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/la-bruyere-jean-de/61508/

#quote #quotes #quotation #brownnosing #popularity #rank #praise #promotion
#position #vulgarity

"#Utah #bans the #bible" is the headline everyone was waiting for.

"The district officially decided to remove the #religious text from elementary and middle #school #libraries for containing "#vulgarity or #violence." The #ban will take effect immediately, with #Bibles being removed from #classrooms even as they close down for the summer."
#bannedbooks #bookchallenge