Archive for Maledicta
The -aster suffix
What a disaster.
muckers and the running smobble (NSFW)
lalochezia
vagina et alia
The brouhaha over a Michigan state Representative being banned from speaking on the House floor after saying the word “vagina” has led to, among other outcomes, a spate of articles...
Obscene intensifiers (probably NSFW)
Today's xkcd comic strip shows a graph of frequency of usage, for a variety of adjectives, of the intensifiers “fucking” and “as shit.” It's a cute graph, and some of...
Graffiti in Pompeii
Kendra tells me that a piece of graffiti found on a wall in Pompeii translates to “Everybody writes on walls except me.” Which led me to search for other ancient...
fracking
I turned on the radio during Talk of the Nation's Science Friday yesterday, in the middle of a segment about natural gas in water. At one point (starting at 13:52...
Cursebird: swearing on Twitter
Cursebird provides "a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter." It even shows a seven-day overview bar graph of the relative frequency of various common swear words....
Spanish profanity
Recently happened across the Wikipedia article on Spanish profanity. The little I've read of it so far seems to be useful and interesting. See also the articles on Portuguese profanity,...