{"id":869,"date":"2008-08-20T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=869"},"modified":"2011-04-30T22:09:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T22:09:06","slug":"steven-pinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"Steven Pinker"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This chapter is about the puzzle of swearing\u2014the strange shock and appeal of words like <em>fuck<\/em>, <em>screw<\/em>, and <em>come<\/em>; <em>shit<\/em>, <em>piss<\/em>, and <em>fart<\/em>; <em>cunt<\/em>, <em>pussy<\/em>, <em>tits<\/em>, <em>prick<\/em>, <em>cock<\/em>, <em>dick<\/em>, and <em>asshole<\/em>; <em>bitch<\/em>, <em>slut<\/em>, and <em>whore<\/em>; <em>bastard<\/em>, <em>wanker<\/em>, <em>cocksucker<\/em>, and <em>motherfucker<\/em>; <em>hell<\/em>, <em>damn<\/em>, and <em>Jesus Christ<\/em>; <em>faggot<\/em>, <em>queer<\/em>, and <em>dyke<\/em>; and <em>spick<\/em>, <em>dago<\/em>, <em>kike<\/em>, <em>wog<\/em>, <em>mick<\/em>, <em>gook<\/em>, <em>kaffir<\/em>, and <em>nigger<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steven Pinker, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0670063274\/103-2675688-1840652?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=famouspeoplewith&#038;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creativeASIN=0670063274\">The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature<\/a><\/em>, London, 2008, p. 327<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chapter is about the puzzle of swearing\u2014the strange shock and appeal of words like fuck, screw, and come; shit, piss, and fart; cunt, pussy, tits, prick, cock, dick, and asshole; bitch, slut, and whore; bastard, wanker, cocksucker, and motherfucker; hell, damn, and Jesus Christ; faggot, queer, and dyke; and spick, dago, kike, wog, mick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[556,1624,1197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stafforini.com\/quotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}