Linguists: Is there a word for the role played by the clearly communicated gibberish of <curse> words in scifi? It seems like such a funny thing.
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Replying to @generativist
I had to look it up: minced oath https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath …
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Replying to @copiesofcopies
Ah cool, Thanks! I’m going to use this in some contrived way very soon, I bet
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Replying to @MacleodSawyerMS @copiesofcopies
“Minced oath”?
5:39 AM - 26 Jun 2019
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