Profanity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, b...
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It may be fair to say that many regular swearers come from anarchic or lower-class backgrounds, and that they swear primarily as a means of distancing themselves from mainstream society and affirming their position as a member of ... Geoffrey Hughes, Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths, and Profanity in English...
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What does the main man say about his profanity? ... Was He trying to “just shake her up a bit” or was He lovingly giving her the words she needed the times to come?
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"Filth" recounts the story of a British precursor of the Parents Television Council, the present-day American social conservative group that helped orchestrate the Bush administration's war on profanity.
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Read this post from Mark Lamster about an incredible official document published by Major League Baseball in 1897 on the rise in profanity used by players. Mark notes how "fresh" the profanity seems. As Dan Drezner says,
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Gotta love his quote . Seems true for many churches. "In the church world today, we’re not fisher’s of men, we’re keepers of the aquarium." Isn't it more the attitude people may have a problem with, not really the choice of word...
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Yet all that 'profane' originally meant in its Latin root was 'outside the temple,' and later, still neutrally, in medieval Latin and French, 'not pertaining to what is sacred or biblical...civil as distinguished from ecclesiastical.' At what point did 'profanity' come into use as a synonym for bad language, cursing,
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www.beliefnet.com/blogs/chatteringmind/2006/05/roots-of...
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I really don't know what made me want to talk about profanity. ... Where did they come from? How did the word "motherfucker" even come to be? Or even the word "fuck". Who said from now on the word "fuck" will be used instead of saying having sexual intercourse or as an exclamation if you bang your toe on something?
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