Где и как ругаются американцы

[kireev]

Интересное исследование географии ругательных слов в США. Исследование сделано с помощью анализа слов в Твиттере. По картам и из опыта кажется, что слова "bitch" и "shit" чаще говорят афро-американцы. Но "asshole" и "cunt" - это уже чисто региональное с провалом на Юге.

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Motherfucker техасское изначально и не войди Техас в США ...

[22he-travnya.livejournal.com]

... не стало бы, благодаря Голливуду, это слово всемирным

The OED’s first citation of the word comes from the Texas Court of Appeals’ account of the 1889 trial of Levy v. State, where witnesses describe a defendant being called a “God damned mother-f—cking, bastardly son-of-a-bitch.” It’s perhaps revealing that, of the four expletives, mother-fucking is the only one to get censored. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals apparently felt more comfortable printing the word just a few years later. Their records from 1898 include an account in which the word is offered almost as grounds for murder: A defendant suggests that he should be partially excused of killing a man just because the man had called him a “mother-fucking son-of-a-bitch.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/02/14/_motherfucker_etymology_and_origins_how_it_became_badass_to_be_a_mofo.html