News
Jess Bravin and Amy Schatz. Don't Read His Lips – You Might Be Offended. The Wall Street Journal Politics section, November 4, 2008.
J. M. Berger. Coming soon, a linguist's guide to obscenities. The Boston Globe Health and Science section, July 9, 2007. [And see Berger's additional material, as well as Potts's related Language Log post]
Related Language Log posts
- Intensives over time (Jan 11, 2009)
- You diphthong! (Jan 5, 2009)
- Swearing and social networks (Dec 19, 2008)
- What does the F-word contribute? (Nov 5, 2008)
- The connotations of the F-word (Nov 4, 2008)
- The pragmatics of market predicates (Oct 26, 2008)
- Market verbs and market performance (Oct 14, 2008)
- Affective demonstratives for everyone (Oct 5, 2008)