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Feeling A Bit Attacked with Maria Konnikova

Revisionist History

The Importance of Propanity in the Religious Context

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The use of swearing is an incredibly important part of the language. Dostoevsky wrote back in 1873 about how the single word hui which means prick dick but it's once again it's you know both prick and dick and cock. He thought that it was just awful that because of censorship he couldn't actually use it. I don't think our letter writer would disagree with that kind of use of profanity.

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