Talk:Profanity

Page move

I don't think this page should have been moved from Profanity to Vulgarism. Vulgarism does not equate to profanity. Profanity can be vulgar, but the vice versa does not apply. Nishkid64 (talk) 20:17, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

"Profanity is using a rude word"

Calling someone "stupid" is rude, but the word "stupid" is not profanity. Panda Bear | Talk | Changes 01:38, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Profanity is a curse or an oath, but "stupid, fat, idiot" are all insults rather than curses.

Gwib^-(talk)- 18:39, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Profanity really isn't vulgar. From a young age, I never have understood that. if it is, then shouldn't words like 'Piss' and 'puke' count as profanity ? LIAM !

They are considered mild profanity in some places, as is "crap". (And does anyone else see the irony in the "cleanup" tag, on a page about this topic?) Zephyrad 23:17, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Cleaning up

Hello, I just created the article on obscenity, blasphemy also exists. I see a few items of improvement:

• Get rid of the listing, as it is not encyclopedic.
• Do not explain blasphemy here, but do it it in the blasphemy article. When doing so, try to not focus on a Christian viewpoint too much.
• Same thing for obscenity; it has its own article.

I will therefore place {{cleanup}} on the article. --Eptalon (talk) 11:19, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Re: "unencyclopedic"

I disagree... and it took how many years to come to the conclusion that they were? Zephyrad (talk) 04:04, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Look at this article in other languages; neither English, nor Spanish, nor German have a listing of "common examples". Besides, when you revert another editor, please do so to the "last known good version". Since we have articles on blasphemy and obscenity I had adapted this article to reflect that, before removing what I considered to be the unencyclopedic part. And yes, I am well aware that this article needs a lot of work. --Eptalon (talk) 11:15, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Image

Realistically, does this image really add much to the article? Kansan (talk) 21:06, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Question

What does filthy language mean? Brandon5015 (talk) 05:32, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

@Brandon5015: It's usually a synonym for profanity. By the way, you usually won't get answers by leaving messages on article talk pages like this because most people won't see your question. Asking at WP:Simple talk is more likely to get you an answer. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:12, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

You really do not know that. Brandon5015 (talk) 12:01, 26 November 2018

Question

What does rude language mean? 152.26.179.25 (talk) 13:59, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

This paragraph seems to have a lot of errors

Use of profanity is unlawful in the Commonwealth of Nations, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The use of words that are profane is also hurtful for children (aged 4–11), pre-teens (aged 12–14), teenagers (aged 15–17), and young adults (aged 18–22). In Russia, it is a criminal record only if used with intent to "exalt the Ideology of the Eastern Slavic Racism" or propagating the Sovereign wealth fund. In the United States and most of the world (including Canada, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, China, South Korea, and Japan), use of profanity is not in itself a criminal record, but comprises hate speech if used for promoting the Ethnic conflict of Neo-Nazism. Publicly using profanity is also unlawful in some Nordic countries (such as Finland, Greenland, and Iceland), under federation law unless for a religious, academic, educational, artistic, literary or scientific purpose.

I can't imagine that use of profanity is totally unlawful in those countries. There's probably some conditions when it is, but not all the time. It strikes me as unlikely that Russia would have a law prohibiting the use of profanity in order to advocate for a sovereign wealth fund. There is also no prohibition on using profanity and supporting Neo-Nazism in the United States (under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution) but I don't know about the other countries. I can't judge the accuracy of this paragraph but maybe it has some truth to it. Depextual (talk) 22:09, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

It certainly isn't in the UK. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 23:07, 24 November 2024 (UTC)