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Swearwords increasingly used for emphasis and to build social bonds, rather than to insult, say academics

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[–] Reality_Suit@lemmy.one 73 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Fuck, I sure as shit hope so.

[–] spookex@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I still fucking hate that some places require you to censor swear words in comments.

This creates a shitty situation where you have to play a fucking guessing game, where you try to guess if your comment gets removed by mods

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

IKR, so fucking dumb

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