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  2. Bleep censor - Wikipedia

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    The bleep censor is a software module, manually operated by a broadcast technician. [2] A bleep is sometimes accompanied by a digital blur pixelization or box over the speaker's mouth in cases where the removed speech may still be easily understood or not understood by lip reading. [3]

  3. History of Swear Words - Wikipedia

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    Premise. Hosted by Nicolas Cage, the unscripted series explores the History of Swear Words through interviews with experts in etymology, popular culture, history and entertainment, with each episode diving into the origins, usage and cultural impact of specific curse words: fuck, shit, bitch, dick, pussy and damn.

  4. Profanity in American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Profanity in American Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL), the sign language used by the deaf community throughout most of North America, has a rich vocabulary of terms, which include profanity. Within deaf culture, there is a distinction drawn between signs used to curse versus signs that are used to describe sexual acts.

  5. Swear words in different languages lack similar sounds ... - AOL

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    Swear words are thought to have sounds that help facilitate the expression of emotion and attitude, researchers say. Swear words in different languages lack similar sounds, study suggests Skip to ...

  6. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or conversational intimacy. In many formal or polite social situations, it is considered impolite ...

  7. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    A follow-up routine, titled "Filthy Words" (featured on his album Occupation: Foole) sees Carlin revisiting the original list and admitting that it is not complete, proceeding to add the words "fart", "turd", and "twat" to the list. He brings this up again in another follow-up routine, "Dirty Words" (featured in George Carlin: Again!

  8. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    cazzo (pl. cazzi [ˈkattso]: literally dick, cock, prick. Used in countless expressions to express a variety of emotions, like anger, frustration, or surprise in a similar way in which "fuck" and "fucking" are used in English. cazzo: fuck/shit/hell. che cazzo: what the hell/fuck. che cazzo fai: what the fuck are you doing.

  9. Wordfilter - Wikipedia

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    Wordfilter. A wordfilter (sometimes referred to as just " filter " or " censor ") is a script typically used on Internet forums or chat rooms that automatically scans users' posts or comments as they are submitted and automatically changes or censors particular words or phrases. The most basic wordfilters search only for specific strings of ...