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A Sweary Q&A Liveshow - April 9/10 on the Lingthusiasm Discord
🕑 Added 2022-03-11 04:34:36 +0000 UTCWe're doing another Lingthusiasm liveshow for 2022! The liveshow is will be on the Lingthusiasm Patron Discord this April 9th/10th (depending on your timezone).
We'll be returning to one of our fan-favourite topics and answering your questions about swearing, which you can ask in the AMA-questions channel on discord in advance, or bring along to the liveshow. You can also share your examples and anecdotes about swearing in various languages on the replies to this post or in the AMA-questions channel on discord, and we might mention some of them in the episode!
The show will last a bit over half an hour, like a normal Lingthusiasm episode, and then we'll open up the floor in the audio channel for the rest of the hour and we can chat a bit informally with any of you who want to hang around, like if we were in the lobby after a physical show!
You can check out the time/date for the event in some major world timezones. Some of us (Lauren) may have more need to bring along a coffee than others (Gretchen), but this is the window where the most people stand the most chance of being awake. We're sorry that the world is inconveniently round sometimes.
For those who can't make the live recording or want to listen again, we'll have the edited audio and transcript as our May bonus episode. (You'll just obviously miss out on the "talking with other fans in the chat during the show" and "asking us questions for the Q&A section" parts of the experience - but feel free to go to the Lingthusiasm Discord at all hours of the day or night if you want to chat with other people who are enthusiastic about linguistics.)
The Lingthusiasm Discord is available for all patrons at the Ling-thuisiast tier and above, which are also the patrons who have access to our monthly bonus episodes. If you haven't joined the Discord yet, here are instructions for linking your Patreon and Discord accounts.
Stay Lingthusiastic! Or in this case, stay %#@&* Lingthusiastic!
Comments
In finnish there is a term lit. translated as "powerwords", which I think encompasses both swearwords/ phrases and non-taboo expressions. I.e. taboo swearwords like "vittu" = vagina, compared to non-taboo phrases like "Tuhat tulimmaista" ≈ a thousand fires, or "Voi hyvä liekki" = oh good fire, also note the non-taboo english "good lord", and japanese "くそ" kuso = poop (not shit like often translated). As a question: What topics can be used as these emotionally loaded non-taboo phrases across the world?
I love knowing swear words in ASL. Some of them are very visually straightforward (eg crap) and some of them are unfortunately easy mistakes for new learners (thank you vs fuck you)
