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Coprolalias and pornophonies

Coprolalias are vices of speaking obscene words and pornophonies obscene words, also called "profanities".

These two words are considered "Parnassianisms".

Happy and Holy Incarnation of the Gammaliturgennium 2025!

189.50.191.16 (talk) 11:54, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Men and Women made a decision to remain Child-free and not get married due to of vulgar language since 2020s.

@Chafe66

In the 2020s. Young men and young women made a decision to remain child-free and not get married. To definitively say that vulgar language is "accepted" in the 2020s, there's a growing cultural acceptance of profanity and slang, with some linguistic experts suggesting it's used more for purposes other than insult, and that younger generations are more likely to use it. Testifyclaw (talk) 23:25, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your very broad opinions about what's happening in society, but this has nothing to do with me or anything I've written. But, if somehow you are responding to something I wrote, please put it in the appropriate section. Chafe66 (talk) 04:02, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Social perception

“Profanity is often associated with lower class professions like soldiers and carters.”

- Not very important, but someone should provide a short explanation of class or a link to caste. It isn’t guaranteed that the person reading this understands what ‘lower class’ means. 2600:4040:54C7:3600:E1A7:FD10:B5F2:4C95 (talk) 22:15, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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As Adult languageAdult language and other such redirect here, that could refer to sexual language, so please add a link in the hatnote to sexual content;

Please change :

{{redirect-several|dab=no|Abusive language (law)|Profane (religion)|Profanity (instant messaging client)|Strong Language (film){{!}}''Strong Language'' (film)|Curse (disambiguation)|Swear (disambiguation)}}

to

{{redirect-several|dab=no|Abusive language (law)|Profane (religion)|Profanity (instant messaging client)|Strong Language (film){{!}}''Strong Language'' (film)|Curse (disambiguation)|Swear (disambiguation)|sexual content}}

-- 65.93.183.249 (talk) 20:16, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done meamemg (talk) 14:34, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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In the "Anatomy and sexuality" section, a claim is made that "Danish uses testicles as a term of abuse with klotzaak." I don't have access to the Ljung paper, but I suspect that this is a double error on the part of either Ljung or whoever wrote this passage of the article. As far as I can tell, no such word exists in Danish; however, it is true that *klootzak* (not *klotzaak*) means "ballsack" and is a term of abuse in Dutch. Cstuartroe (talk) 22:44, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please change

Danish uses testicles as a term of abuse with {{lang|da|klotzaak}}.

to

Dutch uses testicles as a term of abuse with {{lang|nl|klootzak}}.

The following citation may need replacement as well, if the error is present in the Ljung paper.

Done @Cstuartroe I checked the paper and it does indeed say Dutch. I made the edit on the page. InfernoHues (talk) 23:09, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@InfernoHues You only partially addressed my request. The word is *klootzak*, not *klotzaak*.

Done Day Creature (talk) 00:48, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Day Creature @Cstuartroe The source book lists the word as "klotzaak", which is why I kept it as is. I don't speak Dutch though, so I can't personally verify anything. InfernoHues (talk) 21:30, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Day Creature @InfernoHues Ok, well "klotzaak" is definitely an error. I'm not sure what the procedure is for providing sources, but do these suffice?

Looks good to me - marking the request as answered. Day Creature (talk) 05:43, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Cstuartroe (talk) 20:48, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]