Curse word survey
April 29th, 2007 by Erich ViethIf you’d like to know what curse words are the most offensive, Cognitive Daily has the answer for you, based on a recent survey.
If you’d like to know what curse words are the most offensive, Cognitive Daily has the answer for you, based on a recent survey.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Certainly not the most statistically valid survey, but you can hardly blame them for trying. Usually, if one wants to learn about a people’s perspectives on a subject, one can just seek out a well-run survey, perhaps one published in a peer-reviewed journal or other large scale, reliable source. But “dirty words” don’t get much coverage, because of their potential offensiveness to formal survey participants. In my range of experience anyway, very few writers even tackle the subject of dirty language, and those that do submit to the fact that we don’t really have any reliable figures on curse word usage and acceptance to date. Most research institutions still find them too touchy to mention.