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Why Are Bad Words Bad?

(Lilithia)
1 decade 4 months 4 weeks ago

YouTube Description:

EXTRA INFO & LINKS BELOW!

Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow

Marchex Institute study: [See YouTube description]

Canada's most vulgar city: [See YouTube description]

"Bad" etymology: [See YouTube description]

"Grawlixes": [See YouTube description]

Mort Walker - The Lexicon of Comicana: [See YouTube description]

First use of grawlixes: [See YouTube description]

Slate's Lexicon Valley: "A Brief History of Swearing": [See YouTube description]

1 Kilohertz censor beep: [See YouTube description]

Steven Pinker lecture: [See YouTube description]

Swearing history: [See YouTube description]

remembering taboo words: [See YouTube description]

Swearing in the brain: [See YouTube description]

no words should be banned? [See YouTube description]

Mythbusters' Swearing Test: [See YouTube description]

Coprolalia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolalia

Lalochezia: [See YouTube description]

7 dirty words: [See YouTube description]

Swearing is changing: [See YouTube description]

Swearing in the future: [See YouTube description]

Swearing behaviour on Twitter: [See YouTube description]

McKay Hatch - The No Cussing Club: http://nocussing.com/

N.W.A. F*ck Tha Police: [See YouTube description]

2 Comments

chingalera

says...

*promote a subject nearer and dearer to my potty-mouth than I'd care to remind some of the older motherfuckers around here about how hard my personal experience of mob-ass-fucking has been to overcome here on the Videosift.

Praise Eris, the sorry motherfuckers who had it out for me are AWOL or STFU, and I remain intact, energized, and more formidable than ever.

A legend in my own mind and life is good, Lilithia, you are the most beautiful person on the planet and when you let ANYONE tell you otherwise, do so with a death-grip on that pair of mincey balls they're sportin'!