Taboo vocabulary
postings on taboo vocabulary on LLog and AZBlog
tabooing: choice of words labeled as taboo
use: open use of these words
regulation: regulation of taboo words in public
avoidance: schemes for avoiding taboo words
grammar: the grammar of taboo words
searching: searches for taboo words
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☛ GN, 11/3/03: On second thought, make that ‘fuckingly brilliant’:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000077.html
use, regulation, avoidance, grammar
☛ ML, 12/28/03: Bad words getting better?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000267.html
regulation
☛ ML, 1/25/04: Maybe better make that “freaking brilliant”:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000385.html
regulation
☛ BP, 1/25/04: Some people should get a life:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000388.html
regulation, tabooing
☛ ML, 1/25/04: The FCC and the S word:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000389.html
regulation, tabooing
☛ BP, 1/25/04: The Ngadjonji and the PTC:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000390.html
regulation, tabooing
☛ GN, 3/21/04: Imprecational categories:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000614.html
grammar
☛ ML, 4/21/04: The FCC and the S-word (again):
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000796.html
regulation
☛ ML, 6/12/04: The S-word and the F-word:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001042.html
tabooing
☛ ML, 9/22/04: Three vs. four asterisks at Boondocks:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001478.html
avoidance
☛ GP, 10/29/04: The unspeakable:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001608.html
avoidance
☛ ML, 1/19/05: Twat v. Browning:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001812.html
tabooing
☛ GP, 3/1/05: Now the FCC tells us, three months too late:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001940.html
regulation
☛ GP, 3/11/05: Bovine excrement on NPR:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001975.html
avoidance
☛ AZ, 3/19/05: Another bullshit night in suck city:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001994.html
avoidance [NYT]
☛ ML, 6/23/05: Adios, FCC?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002260.html
regulation, avoidance, use
☛ ML, 7/1/05: [Expletive discussed]:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002277.html
avoidance [NYT]
☛ ML, 7/17/05: You taught me language, and my profit on’t/Is, I know how to curse:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002336.html
tabooing, avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ AZ, 7/20/05: Curses!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002347.html
tabooing, use, grammar
☛ AZ, 8/17/05: Modesty at Henry Holt:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002403.html
avoidance
☛ AZ, 8/17/05: No fuckin’ winking at the Times:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002406.html
avoidance [NYT]
☛ GP, 8/24/05: An unspeakable title:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002420.html
avoidance
☛ ML, 8/31/05: Leading questions and frickin’ cooks:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002442.html
[transcribing informal speech]
☛ AZ, 9/6/05: Call me… unpronounceable:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002461.html
avoidance (incl. obscenicons)
☛ AZ, 9/13/05: Effing avoidance (cont.):
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002471.html
avoidance
☛ AZ: 10/6/05: Plain speaking:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002520.html
use
☛ BZ, 11/29/05: Football’s F-word:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002677.html
tabooing
☛ ML, 3/29/06: Delete expletives:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002972.html
tabooing
☛ BZ, 3/30/06: Twonk!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002973.html
tabooing
☛ RS, 4/1/06: The LMU: a new formula for measuring effective writing:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002978.html
[April Fool’s posting]
☛ BZ, 4/2/06: “Thinking specifically about the F-word…”:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002979.html
tabooing, use
☛ AZ, 6/5/06: Words that can’t be printed in the NYT:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003228.html
avoidance, use [NYT]
☛ AZ, 6/7/06: Goram motherfrakker!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003235.html
avoidance
☛ AZ, 6/7/06: Mock modesty at the NYT:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003236.html
avoidance [NYT]
☛ ML, 6/10/06: The history of typographical bleeping:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003244.html
avoidance
☛ ML, 6/15/06: The earliest typographically-bleeped F-word:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003253.html
avoidance
☛ ML, 6/22/06: Beetle Bailey goes positively meta:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003278.html
avoidance (incl. obscenicons), tabooing
☛ ST, 6/23/06: More @!%!**#~@#!! wisdom from Beetle Bailey:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003281.html
avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ BZ, 6/23/06: Everybody’s going meta:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003282.html
avoidance (incl. obscenicons)
☛ BZ, 6/25/06: Obscenity as commodity:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003285.html
avoidance, use
☛ AZ, 7/4/06: Avoiding the other F-word:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003319.html
avoidance, use
☛ BZ, 7/17/06: Presidential expletive watch:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003360.html
avoidance, use
☛ AZ, 7/18/06: Drawing the line:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003362.html
avoidance
☛ BZ, 7/19/06: Taking shit from the President:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003367.html
avoidance, use
☛ EB, 7/19/06: Words of curse:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003368.html
use
☛ AZ, 7/30/06: On the taboo watch: The rock report:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003401.html
avoidance
☛ AZ, 7/31/06: Automatic asterisking:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003403.html
avoidance, searching
☛ AZ, 8/7/06: C*m sancto spiritu:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003427.html
avoidance, searching
☛ BZ, 8/8/06: They called Hillary a whaaa?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003431.html
avoidance
☛ AZ, 8/10/06: Moral panic in asterisking:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003439.html
avoidance, searching
☛ BZ, 8/24/06: Obscenicons in the workplace:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003500.html
avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ AZ, 10/4/06, Further annals of taboo avoidance:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003637.html
avoidance [NYT]
☛ AZ, 10/9/06: Avoidance omnibus:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003653.html
avoidance
☛ AZ, 10/13/06: What the L?!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003671.html
avoidance
☛ GP, 10/13/06: Pubic information:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003672.html
avoidance
☛ ML, 10/20/06: Annals of self-censorship: Avoiding the F-letter:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003692.html
avoidance
☛ AZ, 10/22/06: F-words:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003695.html
tabooing, avoidance
☛ AZ, 11/6/06: Taboo avoidance in Dilbertland:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003742.html
avoidance
☛ AZ, 11/8/06: Swear it:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003748.html
[announcement of Allan & Burridge; Marge Piercy poem]
☛ GP, 11/8/06: Try and stop me, FCC:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003751.html
regulation, avoidance
☛ GN, 11/9/06: The film that dare not speak its name:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003758.html
use, avoidance
☛ GP, 11/19/06: Expletive inserted:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003791.html
use
☛ ML, 11/20/06: Typographical bleeping antedated to 1591:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003795.html
avoidance
☛ RS, 12/5/06: Oh tabernacle! What the wafer!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003861.html
tabooing
☛ RS, 12/6/06: More about cussing in Quebec:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003863.html
tabooing, avoidance
☛ HH, 12/9/06: Linguistic cartoon update update:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003885.html
avoidance
☛ GP, 12/26/06: Linguistic filth at the movies:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003966.html
regulation
☛ GP, 12/26/06: More royal linguistic movie filth:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003967.html
regulation
☛ AZ, 1/7/07: Ultimate avoidance:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004016.html
avoidance
☛ ML, 1/18/07: 2500 words for cursing the weather:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004056.html
use, tabooing
☛ AZ, 1/30/07: Mind your Hindi!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004117.html
avoidance [in this case, failure to avoid]
☛ GP, 2/2/07: Taboos of the nation:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004138.html
avoidance
☛ ML, 4/29/07: Asterisking and other orthographic rituals:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004451.html
avoidance
☛ AZ, 6/4/07: Annals of automated avoidance:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004570.html
avoidance, searching
☛ ML, 6/5/07: Taking no shit from judges:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004574.html
regulation, avoidance
☛ AZ, 8/23/07: The NYT transgresses:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004846.html
use, avoidance [NYT]
☛ AZ, 8/25/07: Another year of taboo avoidance:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004855.html
avoidance, use
☛ BZ, 10/30/07: Taboo avoidance in translation: kros words:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005072.html
avoidance, use
☛ BZ, 11/13/07: Music review: ********:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005111.html
avoidance, use [NYT]
☛ BZ, 12/2/07: Suggestive blending with Satchel and Bucky:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005177.html
(indirect allusion)
☛ AZ, 12/28/07: Una victoria de mierda:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005263.html
avoidance, use
☛ AZ, 3/20/08: Spiral thingy lightning bolt!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005478.html
avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ AZ, 3/21/08: Reading the ampersand comics!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005480.html
avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ AZ, 3/23/08: A little more on obscenicons:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005488.html
avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ AZ, 7/4/08: Seven words you can’t say in a cartoon:
avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ BZ, 7/6/08: Wankerism in the Times:
avoidance, use
☛ BZ, 7/12/08: Times bowdlerizes column on Times bowdlerization:
avoidance [NYT]
☛ AZ, 7/14/08: The slide into the morass:
use, avoidance
☛ AZ, 9/14/08: Taboo display:
use
☛ AZ, 9/24/08: Taboo display (cont.):
use
☛ AZ, 9/27/08: The price of profanity:
[profanity as the cause of throat cancer]
☛ AZ, 10/3/08: Disco F*cks House:
avoidance, use
☛ AZ, 10/9/08: Asterisk vs. hyphen:
avoidance (incl. nigger)
☛ CP, 11/4/08: The connotations of the F-word:
use
☛ CP, 11/5/08: What does the F-word contribute:
[emotional content of taboo vocabulary]
☛ GN, 11/6/08: Fleeting “Fucking”: Original Sinn:
use [and content]
☛ AZ, 11/12/08: No getting laid in the NYT:
avoidance
☛ GP, 12/15/08: Linguistic taboos protecting corrupt officials:
use, avoidance
☛ BZ, 12/15/08: Blagobleepevich:
use, avoidance
☛ ML, 12/18/08: Your tax dollars at work:
use, avoidance
☛ CP, 1/5/09: You diphthong!:
tabooing
☛ AZ, 1/24/09: Taboo toponymy:
avoidance, searching [Scunthorpe effect]
☛ 1/29/09: An effing great photo:
avoidance
☛ 1/30/09: Annals of taboo avoidance:
avoidance
☛ AZ, 4/26/09: Comic profanity:
avoidance
☛ 5/22/09: Taboo avoidance (twice removed):
avoidance [NYT]
☛ 8/2/09: Bad bingo words:
avoidance
☛ 8/3/09: Automatic cleanup:
avoidance, searching
☛ 8/14/09: Too many tweets:
use
☛ 9/5/09: Mind the filter!:
avoidance
☛ AZ, 9/24/09: The F Word, take 3:
[Sheidlower’s 3rd. ed.]
☛ BZ, 9/24/09: The inherent ambiguity of “WTF”:
[WTF]
☛ BZ, 9/25/09: WTF? No, TFW!:
☛ 9/26/09: Wielding taboo:
use
☛ AZ, 10/17/09: Rude word:
tabooing, avoidance [twink(ie)], searching [Scunthorpe effect]
☛ 10/23/09: Walter Gretzkying Carnegie Hall:
avoidance
☛ 11/1/09: Avoiding the gubernatorial taboo word:
avoidance [NYT]
☛ ML, 12/6/09: Annals of Bowdlerization: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot:
avoidance (WTF) [NYT]
☛ 12/13/09: Annals of salty terms:
avoidance (of bullshit detector) [NYT]
☛ ML, 12/31/09: Annals of automatic bowdlerization:
avoidance
☛ 1/5/10: Taboo avoidance for the blind:
avoidance
☛ BZ, 1/8/10: Expurgating the Facebook fugitive:
avoidance
☛ 1/17/10: From the February Harper’s:
avoidance
☛ 1/24/10: One more –tard:
use in fucktard
☛ 2/7/10: The meta-euphemism:
avoidance
☛ 5/8/10: 69:
tabooing, regulation, use
☛ 5/15/10: X-words:
avoidance
☛ 5/21/10: Annals of taboo avoidance: the white triangle of modesty:
avoidance
☛ 7/16/10: Country obscenicons:
avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ ML, 7/17/10: “Pound sign question mark star exclamation point”:
avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ BZ, 7/17/10: Obscenicons a century ago:
avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ BZ, 7/22/10: The language of “Mad Men” and the perils of self-expurgation:
The language of “Mad Men” and the perils of self-expurgation
avoidance [NYT]
☛ BZ, 7/24/10: More on the early days of obscenicons:
avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ 7/31/10: Data points: taboo avoidance, abbreviation:
avoidance [NYT]
☛ GP, 8/5/10: Back off (excuse my French):
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2523
avoidance
☛ ML, 8/7/10: Annals of [having sex] [feces]:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2529
avoidance [NYT]
☛ AZ, 11/30/10: Retitling Strunk & White:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2813
use of dick and asshole
☛ 12/8/10: The slur dick:
tabooing of dick and asshole
☛ 12/26/10: Cee Lo’s memorable song of 2010:
avoidance and open use of fuck
☛ 1/20/11: Comparative swearology:
AmE vs. BrE in “swearwords”
☛ 1/21/11: More on swearology:
on interjections, what counts as profanity, degrees of offensiveness, and dialect differences
☛ 2/9/11: Annals of taboo avoidance:
avoiding the name Harry Baals
☛ 2/15/11: Rhymes:
avoiding “Fuck You” by Cee Lo Green
☛ 2/18/11: Shaving cream:
ostentatious avoidance in lyrics
☛ 2/18/11: Jeezamarooni:
euphemism
☛ 3/6/11: Obscenity and literary merit:
censorship; also slurs
☛ 3/7/11: Punk-ass fag in the news:
avoidance, use; also slurs
☛ 3/15/11: Musical f-bombs:
avoidance, use (fuck) [NYT]
☛ 4/12/11: Our pesky artists:
avoidance, use (motherfucker) [NYT]
☛ 4/25/11: On the taboo avoidance patrol:
avoidance, use (motherfucker, suck, kick-ass)
☛ ML, 5/11/11: Another meta-obscenicon strip:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3135
avoidance (obscenicons)
☛ 5/31/11: Deshagged:
use (shag ‘fuck’)
☛ 6/5/11: The Social Network:
avoidance, use
☛ 7/1/11: A shortened version of Richard:
avoidance, use (dick)
☛ 7/22/11: Exclaimining euphemistically:
avoidance
☛ 7/11/11: X happens:
avoidance/allusion (Chick Happens, Lit Happens)
☛ 8/5/11: More X happens:
avoidance/allusion (Sit Happens)
☛ 8/9/11: Vajazzled!:
avoidance/use (vagina)
☛ 9/14/11: F**k You, Penguin:
avoidance, use
☛ 10/3/11: diddly squat:
(vulgar minimizers)
☛ 10/7/11: Fellating a memory:
(fellate)
☛ 10/11/11: Quoting modestly:
avoidance, use [NYT]
☛ 10/22/11: Annals of taboo avoidance:
avoidance [NYT]
☛ 10/30/11: The season of penis and vagina:
avoidance, use
☛ 10/30/11: Taboo avoidance in Canada?:
☛ AZ, 11/2/11: Learning to talk (in)appropriately:
use
☛ 11/10/11: From talking about the word to using it:
avoidance
☛ 1/10/12: “or words to that effect”:
avoidance (of ass ‘anus’) [NYT]
☛ 1/23/12: Fucking ambiguity:
use
☛ 2/13/12: ish and masculinity:
avoidance (of shit)
☛ 2/29/12: Slang connotations too unfortunate to explain:
avoidance in Italian: fagiolini
☛ 3/21/12: language ‘bad language’:
☛ 3/27/12: The tone but not the words:
avoidance: ‘19 expletives’ [NYT]
☛ 4/1/12: More tone without the words:
avoidance [NYT]
☛ ML, 4/16/12: Larkin v. the Gray Lady:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3905
avoidance (mess up for fuck up) [NYT]
☛ 4/16/12: The Gray Lady avoids:
avoidance, with inventory of postings on avoidance in the NYT
☛ BZ, 4/16/12: The first “asshole” in the Times?:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3906
use [NYT]
☛ 4/29/12: Annals of French taboo avoidance:
avoidance [NYT]
☛ 5/7/12: Reporting the profane:
avoidance [NYT]
☛ 5/9/12: More reporting the profane:
avoidance [NYT]
☛ 5/19/12: Annals of garment phallicity:
use
☛ 7/8/12: Ask AZ: The F-word and “F-word”:
avoidance, use [NYT, New Yorker]
☛ 7/11/12: Garmmra meets expletives:
use (fuck)
☛ 7/12/12: Potentially embarrassing acronyms:
use, avoidance (MILF)
☛ ST, 7/29/12: Holy s***! J-school punchy prose?:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4100
avoidance (shit)
☛ 7/30/12: More taboo avoidance in the NYT:
avoidance [NYT], with additions to the inventory of postings on avoidance in the NYT
☛ 8/3/12: On the taboo/slur watch:
avoidance [ass in NYT], use [in Guardian]
☛ 8/4/12: Cursing:
avoidance
☛ 8/5/12: NYT taboo avoidance fail:
avoidance [cocksuckers, NYT]
☛ 8/9/12: Taboo initialism avoidance:
avoidance [fuck, NYT]
☛ 8/13/12: Taboo initials (cont.):
general issues in avoidance
☛ 8/14/12: Follow-up: The A-word:
avoidance [asshole; cock in NYT; damn]
☛ 8/15/12: New NYT modesty:
avoidance [fart, NYT]
☛ 8/16/12: Follow-up: Walter the farting dog:
use [fart, NYT]
☛ 8/19/12: The pussy patrol:
use [pussy, NYT, vs. avoidance of cock]
☛ 8/20/12: More A-word:
avoidance [asshole, NYT]
☛ 9/2/12: Off-color:
avoidance [fuck]
☛ 9/4/12: Follow-up: reporting Eastwood:
avoidance; the euphemism treadmill
☛ 9/5/12: The inside/outside strategy:
avoidance [piss, NYT]
☛ ML, 9/19/12: Annals of euphemism:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4197
avoidance [of what?, NYT]
☛ 9/19/12: Timesly taboo avoidance:
avoidance [of what?, NYT]
☛ 9/26/12: Astonishing NYT volte-face:
use [fuck – but humor]
☛ 10/18/12: Taboo avoidance trio:
avoidance [?shitty, fuck]
☛ 11/7/12: Taboo not appropriate:
avoidance [shit]
☛ 1/5/13: Bobbing and weaving with the Gray Lady:
avoidance [NYT]
☛ 2/4/13: The Gray Lady stands her ground:
avoidance [shit, NYT], ostentatious avoidance in an ad
☛ 2/5/13: The Koch bleep:
avoidance [complex, NYT]
☛ 4/18/13: Arcane taboo avoidance:
avoidance [pussy, NYT, avoided via pudendum]
☛ 5/20/13: Briefly noted: the shalom of curse words:
use [fuck], avoidance [by bleeping]
☛ 8/14/13: Today’s baffling taboo avoidance:
(unidentifiable) word omitted [NYT]
☛ 8/16/13: Odds and ends 8/16/13:
avoidance [jackass, naked, genitals]
☛ 9/7/13: kick-ass news:
avoidance [ass in kick ass] [NYT]
☛ 9/7/13: More NYT avoidance:
avoidance [“crude term for masturbation” in NYT]
☛ 9/26/13: Vulgar chant in the NYT:
avoidance [YSA chant, with asshole, in NYT]
☛ 10/5/13: The zipless fuck:
avoidance [of fuck on NPR]
☛ 12/26/13: On the taboo avoidance watch:
use (fuck) in NYT and avoidance (shit) in BBC
☛ 2/9/14: Taboo avoidance in the NYT once again:
avoidance [of shit, bitch, fuck, in NYT]
☛ 4/1/14: Profanity in the NYT:
avoidance in NYT
☛ 11/14/14: It happens:
avoidance (shit) in Perry NY
☛ 12/5/14: Press release modesty:
avoidance (shit, pissing, fuck) in press releases
☛ 1/15/15: Taboo time in Paris:
avoidance in NYT – presumably foutu
☛ 3/18/15: Knob in a red top:
avoidance in tabloids, by asterisking
☛ 4/2/15: Sidestepping the taboo item:
avoidance (with allusion to the taboo item): Dilbert with the name Dick; DraftKings ad with a shipload of money
☛ 4/10/15: No WTF:
avoidance of WTF in the NYT
☛ 5/3/15: shag:
use (shag ‘fuck)
☛ 6/18/15: The Haddockian argot, and licorice:
avoidance: Captain Haddock in Tintin creatively using non-taboo vocabulary for cursing and swearing
☛ 6/19/15: From manure du jour to the Ascent of Man:
avoidance: manure ‘(bull)shit’ (in a Bizarro)
☛ 7/24/15: The offensive t-shirt:
use: fuck on t-shirt (Cyanide & Happiness)
☛ 8/26/15: Jeremy drops an F-bomb:
use (in a Zits, with an icon for the F-bomb)
☛ 8/28/15: Robots up the wazoo:
bare avoidance in a Dilbert with ass ‘anus’ understood; euphemistic wazoo
☛ 10/22/15: Words of One Syllable Dept.:
avoidance in the NYT; Justin Trudeau’s penis size reference; his “piece of shit” reference
☛ 10/24/15: A regrettable food name:
tabooing: borderline taboo, the scatological dump
☛ 10/27/15: Pop-Tart blasphemy:
tabooing: blasphemous profanity (damn, in this case)– the mildest of strong language
☛ 10/29/15: Lame taboo avoidance:
avoidance of the verb fuck (via date) and of kill
☛ 11/3/15: Briefly noted: a bullshit lexicon:
use of shit in bullshit (Mark Peters’s bullshit lexicon)
☛ 11/4/15: Bullshido, bullshtein, and cork soakers:
use: bullshit again, cock in cocksucker
☛ 11/6/15: Clean underwear:
euphemism skidmark
☛ 12/15/15: The news for cartoons:
avoidance in New Yorker cartoons
☛ 2/25/16: a katakana para:
use of fucking-A
☛ 3/24/16: Orifices for talk:
avoidance of talk out of one’s ass by indirect allusion
☛ 5/18/16: The FUCK card:
use, grammar
☛ 7/29/16: Naming names: the cocktail hour:
avoidance in the NYT
☛ 9/28/16: jackhole:
avoidance of asshole on radio and television, via jackhole
☛ 1/27/17: Today’s hot guy:
use of fucking in the oxymoronic BE FUCKING POLITE
☛ 1/28/17: Yesterday’s hot guy:
use: intensifier fucking, sexual fucking
☛ 1/31/17: fudge:
avoidance: fudge! as euphemism for fuck!
☛ 3/9/17: pain in the X:
avoidance of pain in the ass in One Big Happy
☛ 3/13/17: Risible (faux-)commercial name:
tabooing of dick ‘penis’
☛ 3/31/17: Men swear at menswear:
profane captioning of men’s fashion shots
☛ 5/17/17: Larkin and the Gray Lady, again:
avoidance of fuck in Larkin’s “This Be the Verse” [NYT]
☛ 6/11/17: Shit yes! Fuck no!:
Syfy channel allowing shit but bleeping fuck
☛ 6/16/17: Woolly Mammoth flips us the bird:
use and avoidance of fuck in Stupid Fucking Bird (avoidance in NYT)
☛ 7/15/17: Ostentatious euphemisms:
ostentatious use of euphemisms for shit in naughty songs and (especially) commercials
☛ 10/21/17: A portmantriple:
playful use of crap, crapola
☛ 11/2/17: This machine kills fascists:
feminist use of pussy, dick, sucking cock
☛ 11/9/17: The silence of the H’s and the nastiness of the narg:
invented swear word narg
☛ 11/15/17: Wet words:
euphemism and indirection in reference to urination
☛ 12/27/17: Expletive syntax: I will marry the crap out of you, Sean Spencer:
Expletive syntax: I will marry the crap out of you, Sean Spencer
grammatical constructions crucially involving fuck, shit, hell, etc.
☛ 1/7/18: Exclamations:
vocabulary for referring to taboo vocabulary: curse words, cuss words, etc.
☛ 2/21/18: Adventures in alcohol:
use: the drink Purple Fuck
☛ 5/5/18: Lusty days:
use: fucking in Jonathan Coulton’s “First of May”
avoidance: euphemism bonk for fuck
☛ 5/12/18: For Mothers Day:
use: motherfucker, mother, muthuh
☛ 5/22/18:The cumless cake:
tabooing, regulation, avoidance: asterisking of cum
☛ 7/8/18: How to use the F Word:
use, grammar
☛ 7/30/18: Mud, shit, and chocolate:
avoidance (shit euphemized to mud; or to ca-ca, doo-doo)
☛ 8/23/18: “Hell is that guy doing?”: predator-truncated QuEx:
grammar (esp. truncated QuEx)
☛ 9/11/18: I gotta go:
avoidance: elimination go
☛ 10/13/18: Chic peas and more:
avoidance: prune avoided by euphemism (dried plum, dehydrated plum)
☛ 11/1/18: X Places:
obligatory avoidance in The Good Place: shirt for shit, fork for fuck, etc.
☛ 11/4/18: Annals of euphemism: degrees of avoided expletivity:
avoidance: [f$%king] as insufficiently euphemistic and a risk to national security
use: flagrant flirting with taboo vocabulary: FUKR briefs, FCUK clothing
☛ 11/16/18: Reciprocity in the profane domain:
use, grammar
☛ 12/13/18: Taboo book notice:
Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language
☛ 12/25/18: Worst year ever:
the oath Jesus fuck!; use in a Scenes From a Multiverse cartoon; use (along with cunt and shit) in song of that name by the rock band (the) Jesus Mary and Chain
☛ 1/22/19: On the euphemism watch:
religious curses; euphemisms for them; loss of taboo (nouns God and hell, verb damn)
☛ 3/3/19: Another hybrid food, no portmanteau name:
avoidance of bitch
☛ 3/7/19: The cable gremlins:
adjectival fucking construed as sentence adverbial
☛ 3/20/19: Low back issues:
Polly The X-Rated Insulting Parrot (toy)
☛ 3/24/19: Pushing the boulder up the hill:
euphemism (well) endowed, endowment
☛ 3/30/19: News for carnivorous penises:
piss slit
☛ 4/1/20: Annals of sexual slang: peacocks:
use of Latin for euphemizing
☛ 4/28/20: Crochet me a word:
open use of FUCK in crochet art
☛ 6/3/20: Scatological advice:
elaborate avoidance of FUCK in the New York Times, use in other news sources; grammar of FUCK and SHIT
☛ 6/17/20: Smearing and taunting:
use: pussy as taunt
☛ 6/18/20: Exulting in Pride:
use: Gay as Fuck; syntax of postmodifier as fuck
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