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Please don’t swear?
‘With swear words, we can cut, soothe, delight, frighten, insult and seduce,’ says Hollywood legend Nicolas Cage in the trailer to Netflix’s new controversial series, History of Swear Words. And it’s true – for most people, swear words are now a regular part of everyday life, rather than just a way to intimidate or show disgust.
This six-part series, each dedicated to a particular swear word, delves into the ‘history, evolution and cultural impact’ of the most common, infamous naughty words around. A comedy series with a tongue-in-cheek style that’s easy to watch, it investigates when a ‘word’ becomes a ‘swear’ word.
So should we be accepting of such, often insulting and offensive, language in our day-to-day vocabulary? Are you prudish when it comes…
