Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity : how swear words differ around the world

19 octobre 2025 | Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent
Once dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, researchers now argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked When researchers asked people around the world to list every taboo word they could think of, the differences that emerged were revealing. The length of each list, for example, (…)
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