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What’s interesting is, traditionally in language, once forbidden words got ran out, there were still other bad words left to enter the lexicon. “Damn” used to be a genuine curse. My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.

What’s next? There’s no new forbidden words. Nothing left in the back of the store. Our ability to run through words outpaced our ability to make bad ones.

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TWeaK@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

What’s next?

“Moist”.

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- GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Ugh, too real!
  
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OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve been using twit

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MamboNo5@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.

I killed a lot of people, many probably innocent, but I’m a good person cause I never swore!

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- GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Not quite. It’s that he was flying a plane and being shot at 6 days a week, and yet still didn’t need to jump up to a new bad word. Whatever he already knew is the language he used.
  
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