From 16th-century playwrights to ‘The Good Place,’ wordplay has found clever ways to get around uttering profane and blasphemous language.
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A cognitive scientist observes that the words that bother college-age Americans today can cause harm.
With the taboo on swearing loosening over the past few decades, will profanity lose its effectiveness in spoken language?
Did your child just drop the F-bomb? What can you do?
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Assistant Professor of Multicultural Education, Teacher Education, and Childhood Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of English, Indiana University
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Professor of Linguistics, West Virginia University
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Professor of Cognitive Science; Director of the Language and Cognition Lab, University of California San Diego
