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What Makes Bad Words Bad? Taboo Language and Euphemisms

What kinds of words are off-limits in different languages? How deeply does profanity affect us? In this week's episode, we talk about taboo language and euphemisms: how they work, when we're allowed to use what, how psychologically deep they go, and why we can't run on the same euphemisms forever. This is Topic #68! This week's tag language: Romansh! If you want the information, but you don't want the swearing, please check the companion post on our Tumblr: http://thelingspace.tumblr.com/post/1... Last episode: Finding Sense in Sounds: Do Sounds Carry Their Own Meanings? -    • Do Sounds Carry Their Own Meanings? Onomat...   Other of our socio- and historical linguistics videos: Recovering History: How Can We Know What Language Used to Look Like? -    • How Can We Know What Language Used to Look...   Gender on the Brain: How Do We Process Language and Gender? -    • Gender and Language Processing   Linguistic Pride and Prejudice: What's the Difference between a Dialect and a Language? -    • Sociolinguistics and Dialects   Find us on all the social media worlds: Tumblr:   / thelingspace   Twitter:   / thelingspace   Facebook:   / thelingspace   And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com/ ! You can also find our store at the website, https://thelingspace.storenvy.com/ Our website also has extra content about this week's topic at http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-68/ (Or we will by Thursday afternoon.) We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally. Sources: More detailed sources to come tonight, but much of the information contained in this video comes from Steven Pinker's The Stuff of Thought, and Ronald Wardhaugh's An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Fifth Edition. Looking forward to next week!