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Ruth Wajnryb

Ruth Wajnryb is an applied linguist, researcher, and writer. She has a weekly column in The Sydney Morning Herald in which she explores linguistic topics.

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Expletive Deleted A Good Look at Bad Language By: Ruth Wajnryb
This edition: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: June 4, 2011
Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance)...
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