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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Smart as hell and funny as fuck, this book explains why we can't stop swearing and what it tells us about our language and brains. Everyone swears. Only the rare individual can avoid ever letting slip an expletive. And yet, we ban the words from television and insist that polite people excise them from their vocabularies. That's a fucking shame. Not only is swearing colorful, fun, and often powerfully apt, as linguist and cognitive scientist Benjamin...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"There are times when just hollering obscenities won't do--you need to stab something. Now you can do both. Maybe Swearing Will Help combines two of the best stress-relievers--cursing, and cross stitch--into one of the most irreverently enjoyable craftingexperiences you'll ever have. With 25 patterns from the crafting world's most bad-ass cross-stitch designers, this book has everything from a modern take on the traditional sampler to retro comic...
Author
Series
Why Mommy volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
It's every parents' nightmare - the start of the school holidays - and instead of sitting in the sun, reading a book over a cold, crisp glass of Pinot Grigio, Mummy has two bored moppets to attend to. After frantically booking sports camps, child minder slots, not to mention time off work, Mummy is exhausted. But this is only the beginning...--Amazon.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? Throughout the twentieth century there seems to have been a dramatic escalation in the use and acceptance of offensive language in English, both verbally and in print. Just how have we become such a bunch of cursers and what does it tell us about our language and ourselves? A look at the power of words to shock, offend, insult, amuse, exaggerate, let off steam,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"When President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic "This is a big f****** deal!" A town in Massachusetts levies $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude toward swearing and "bad language": how can we judge profanity so harshly in principle, yet use it so frequently in practice? Though profanity is more acceptable today than ever, it is still...
Author
Series
Daddy (Scott M. Cohn) volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
At school, a little girl repeats the bad word her father said when he hit his hand with a hammer, so her teacher and parents help her learn that there are better ways to express frustration.