Mel Brooks is a greater piece of American heritage than the Confederacy.

the com in .com is short for company. i trust you will correct your pronunciation

An Oklahoma farmer was arrested & cuffed for speaking a few seconds too long at a public forum on a data center. @404media.co has the footage "You need to leave” -officer “I’m done with the mic” -farmer "Right now" “On what grounds?" “Arrest him" - cop www.404media.co/bodycam-foot...

Gary Larson for the win ~

"Fucken A!" Wolf-boy versus Grinder (the Bow Valley Beowulf), 2026 James Harbeck 🇨🇦

Lots of echoes of my experience in this. But please don't make me read the phrase "sperm sisters" ever again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the older I get, the fucker the no

Cover story, @harpers.bsky.social, July 2026.

BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”

It sounds like the Knicks won and people needed to express that in their native language

BBC Guest: “I think Gianni Infantino and FIFA are a bunch of greedy fucks.” BBC: “Apologies for the language.”

Saw this fantastic pup at #pride this afternoon. Only realized later they were with my cousins kid! 😂 #PVPride #Manitoba

This is a veteran ripping into Trump for the Arlington visit and I’m amused as all hell that Newsweek quoted him this way 🤣

end your sentences with prepositions, who gives a fuck at

also, I'm feeling a little cranky tonight. let's do it #medium #writing #writer #freeread #shortread #opinion #language #linguistics #swearing #fuck

A “nearly sweary” ad on Reddit. @stronglang.bsky.social @fritinancy.bsky.social

Happy feast day of St Gottschalk, patron saint of linguists, languages, translators, and lost vocations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottsch...

When the barber asks how I want my hair done

Holy geez, are you fuckers in for a treat. @sesquiotic.bsky.social had a cocktail or two over the weekend and recorded his translations of passages from Beowulf (plus the original Old English of the intro). stronglang.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/w...

hope you brought urine!

When things are going GREAT

Holy geez, are you fuckers in for a treat. @sesquiotic.bsky.social had a cocktail or two over the weekend and recorded his translations of passages from Beowulf (plus the original Old English of the intro). stronglang.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/w...

NEW EXAMPLE FOR FONT LESSON JUST DROPPED

Nice! Mine if I add this to my list?

Just because something is old doesn’t mean you should try to make it sound like Shakespeare. So many medieval, classical, and ancient works are actually highly relatable, and only using archaic language to transmit them distances the reader from the story as it ought to be experienced.

me [arriving at your barbeque]: aww mate is that a genuine cunto??

"Holy shit, that hell-hound thought, I’ve never met, in this mad, mad world, a goddamn grip on any guy as fierce as this. Fuck, he was freaked, and had to haul ass—like that would happen." stronglang.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/w...

Have you read Beowulf? No you haven't. And especially not like this. Well, you fucking should. Or anyway the fight between Beowulf and Grendel, which is short enough that you'd get through it. @sesquiotic.bsky.social brings it to you. stronglang.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/w...

Fucking hell, that is insufficient. Goddamn, what the fuck is this shit?

@profanity.accountant Good afternoon, my friend.

Banksy strikes again

FTA: @benzimmer.bsky.social on one of the nerdiest two-remove euphemisms you'll ever see stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/w...

French words that sound rude but are in fact not: culasse, putois, clafoutis, Bardella #linguistics

You have to love a work email that starts "we have a shit show"

I wrote about LipSlut and other SLUT brands for @stronglang.bsky.social in 2019. stronglang.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/s...

An illustration from Morris et al.'s book appears in @superlinguo.bsky.social's post at @stronglang.bsky.social about the easily confused "V for Victory" and "up yours" gestures: stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/u... #linguistics

There are fantastically fun links in this month's Separated by a Common Newsletter. Have a look, and if you like it, subscribe! lynneguist.substack.com/p/making-a-n...

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

Nela Tshuma on her research into euphemisms for the vulva, and why they matter for women's sexual and reproductive health care in Zimbabwe: www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/eup... via @karenyin.bsky.social's latest Conscious Language Newsletter

Arnold Zwicky's notes on the slang terms "wazoo" arnoldzwicky.org/2026/04/24/h... and "bust a nut" arnoldzwicky.org/2026/04/28/v... #slang #linguistics

I love "JMJ" and featured it in this early @stronglang.bsky.social post about sweary abbreviations stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/o...

That post on sweary abbreviations is cited in @jessesword.com's The F-Word, 4th edition, in its entry for "AMF" #proud See @fritinancy.bsky.social's interview with Jesse at @stronglang.bsky.social for background: stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/11/05/j...

"This is not about encouraging rudeness or bad behaviour, but rather celebrating diversity and just acknowledging that swearing is, for a lot of people, a day-to-day part of life" Linguists at University of Sheffield study regional insults and swear words: www.theguardian.com/science/2026... 🐦🐦

Cornhole: wholesome, or some hole? By Dave Wilton stronglang.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/c...

In which the Gray Lady prints an unexpurgated quote and also demurely defaults to “the F-word.” cc @stronglang.bsky.social (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Counterpoint: DO watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

Within you there are two eras. www.ft.com/content/5269...

Crazy bastard has been a term of grudging approbation since the publication of the greatest New Yorker cartoon of all time