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A Guide to UK Profanity
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Tonight I found this publication from Ofcom, the government entity in charge of communications in the UK. It provides ratings of the relative offensiveness of bad words used in the UK, as well as other information. The publication was put out in 2016, so the content is not a perfect match to the Pros era. (The attitudes toward what the guide calls discriminatory language have no doubt changed the most.) Nevertheless, I think I will find it helpful. Profanity and insults are the things that I find hardest to parse in British media. ("What does this mean literally? How offensive is it? In what context would you use it?")
ETA: The full report can be found here. It has lots of additional details, and also tables sorting the words by offensiveness.
Tonight I found this publication from Ofcom, the government entity in charge of communications in the UK. It provides ratings of the relative offensiveness of bad words used in the UK, as well as other information. The publication was put out in 2016, so the content is not a perfect match to the Pros era. (The attitudes toward what the guide calls discriminatory language have no doubt changed the most.) Nevertheless, I think I will find it helpful. Profanity and insults are the things that I find hardest to parse in British media. ("What does this mean literally? How offensive is it? In what context would you use it?")
ETA: The full report can be found here. It has lots of additional details, and also tables sorting the words by offensiveness.
