Strong Language
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Have we outgrown the shock value of using the F-word on book covers?
Resorting to coarse language on book covers could be a symptom of society’s collective misery, but there could be other reasons too.
Donna Mazza, The Conversation
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How Hindi evolved as the language of rebellion against classicists and casteists
The powerful embedded language with abuses to define and wound those they feared and disliked. But the outcastes soon gave back as good as they got.
Mrinal Pande
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Foul-mouthed Minions? Some myths about children and swearing
According to an academic who has performed extensive research on swearing, children learn swear words from a very young age: around one or two.
Elyse Methven, The Conversation
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