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Offensive and taboo words shift significantly across languages and over historical time periods
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Evidence from linguistic literature confirms that offensive and taboo words vary widely and shift significantly across different cultures, languages, and historical time periods.

Evidence for · 2
Taboo words and language
2018 · cited by 6
The chapter notes that taboo terms and proscribed behaviors vary significantly across communities and historical periods.
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The claim states that offensive and taboo words shift significantly across languages and over historical time periods. Papers [3] and [5] directly support this by examining how taboos, obscenities, and proscribed words vary considerably across cultures, historical epochs, and contexts. No retrieved papers refute the claim.

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Maledictive Language: Obscenity and Taboo Words
2020 · cited by 3
The study highlights that there is tremendous historical, cultural, and contextual variation in what is considered obscene or taboo.
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  1. The evolution of medial /t/ over realand remembered timepeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  2. Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science: An Adversarial Collaboration.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity?peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Taboo words and languagepeer-reviewedsupports
  5. Foundation models and intelligent decision-making: Progress, challenges, and perspectives.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Maledictive Language: Obscenity and Taboo Wordspeer-reviewedsupports
  7. A survey on multi-lingual offensive language detection.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Implicit Standardization in a Minority Language Community: Real-Time Syntactic Change among Hasidic Yiddish Writers.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Open Problems in Computational Historical Linguistics.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Mutual-Support Groups for Alcohol and Other Drug Use in East, South and Southeast Asia: A Scoping Review.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Centroid analysis: Inferring concept representations from open-ended word responses.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. Evolution of moral expression in song lyrics.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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first checked05 Aug 2026
judged → SUPPORTED · 6905 Aug 2026
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