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Most of us come to language learning for the most noble and respectable reasons, but let’s be real: you probably couldn’t wait for someone to teach you all the bad words in your learning language. Perhaps you cuss like a sailor, and you can’t express yourself properly in another language without learning how to verbally flip someone off. Maybe you prefer to keep your vulgar education in a vault — you know, for anthropological purposes. But regardless of how you personally intend to use them, swear words, obscenities, and taboos have a lot to teach us about the culture that brings a given language to life.
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