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.
Curse word survey
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:April 29, 2007
- Post category:Bigotry / Culture / Language
- Post comments:1 Comment
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
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.