English Dirty Word Taboo Dictionary

Author: (English) J. McDonald / He Jintao / Jiang Lingyun
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: In fact, classifying words as elegant or vulgar or clean and dirty, and then practicing "discrimination against word families," is biased. After all, words are merely abstractions of reality and have no inherent purity or filth. Moreover, the so-called elegance and vulgarity in the cultural realm are also relative and change over time. This dictionary is a comprehensive collection of English "dirty words" and "taboo language," unmatched by other dictionaries. It introduces and analyzes them from numerous perspectives, including linguistics, folkloristics, and literature, and cites works by renowned authors such as Chaucer and Shakespeare.