The Electric Typewriter

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6th Sep

What the F***?

by Stephen Pinker

When it comes to political speech, we are living in a free-speech utopia, but when it comes to certain words for copulation and excretion, we still allow the might of the government to bear down on what people can say in public.

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    “There are figures of speech that put obscene words to other uses, such as the barnyard epithet for insincerity, the...
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