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Opus Maledictorum: Insults, Curses, Slurs, and other Bad Words from Around the World
Culled from 20 years of Maledicta--"the journal the world swears by"--this compendium of colorful language in all its forms takes a linguistic look at "dirty words." Offering a clever mixture of both scholarly and popular, witty and serious words, this good-natured look at offensive language includes dirty jokes, regional swear words, and myriad terms of abuse.
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First published March 1, 1996
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November 21, 2008
Why do people swear? Are there cultures that don't swear? What do different cultures use for swear words, and what does it say about them? These and many other interesting questions will go totally unanswered by this book.
It's just a collection of articles from some academic journal. Some of them are vaguely interesting. Most of them are just big lists. The author's wikipedia page is a much more interesting read.
It's just a collection of articles from some academic journal. Some of them are vaguely interesting. Most of them are just big lists. The author's wikipedia page is a much more interesting read.
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