Talk:Profanity

Social perception

“Profanity is often associated with lower class professions like soldiers and carters.”

- Not very important, but someone should provide a short explanation of class or a link to caste. It isn’t guaranteed that the person reading this understands what ‘lower class’ means. 2600:4040:54C7:3600:E1A7:FD10:B5F2:4C95 (talk) 22:15, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

edit request

As Adult languageAdult language and other such redirect here, that could refer to sexual language, so please add a link in the hatnote to sexual content;

Please change :

{{redirect-several|dab=no|Abusive language (law)|Profane (religion)|Profanity (instant messaging client)|Strong Language (film){{!}}''Strong Language'' (film)|Curse (disambiguation)|Swear (disambiguation)}}

Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Abusive language (law), Profane (religion), Profanity (instant messaging client), Strong Language (film), Curse (disambiguation), and Swear (disambiguation).

to

{{redirect-several|dab=no|Abusive language (law)|Profane (religion)|Profanity (instant messaging client)|Strong Language (film){{!}}''Strong Language'' (film)|Curse (disambiguation)|Swear (disambiguation)|sexual content}}

Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Abusive language (law), Profane (religion), Profanity (instant messaging client), Strong Language (film), Curse (disambiguation), Swear (disambiguation), and sexual content.

-- 65.93.183.249 (talk) 20:16, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

 Done meamemg (talk) 14:34, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 December 2025

In the "Anatomy and sexuality" section, a claim is made that "Danish uses testicles as a term of abuse with klotzaak." I don't have access to the Ljung paper, but I suspect that this is a double error on the part of either Ljung or whoever wrote this passage of the article. As far as I can tell, no such word exists in Danish; however, it is true that *klootzak* (not *klotzaak*) means "ballsack" and is a term of abuse in Dutch. Cstuartroe (talk) 22:44, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Please change

Danish uses testicles as a term of abuse with {{lang|da|klotzaak}}.

to

Dutch uses testicles as a term of abuse with {{lang|nl|klootzak}}.

The following citation may need replacement as well, if the error is present in the Ljung paper.

 Done @Cstuartroe I checked the paper and it does indeed say Dutch. I made the edit on the page. InfernoHues (talk) 23:09, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

@InfernoHues You only partially addressed my request. The word is *klootzak*, not *klotzaak*.

 Done Day Creature (talk) 00:48, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

@Day Creature @Cstuartroe The source book lists the word as "klotzaak", which is why I kept it as is. I don't speak Dutch though, so I can't personally verify anything. InfernoHues (talk) 21:30, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

@Day Creature @InfernoHues Ok, well "klotzaak" is definitely an error. I'm not sure what the procedure is for providing sources, but do these suffice?

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/klootzak
• https://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/vertaal/NL/EN/klootzak
• https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=nl&text=What%20an%20asshole!&op=translate
• https://context.reverso.net/translation/dutch-english/klootzak Cstuartroe (talk) 04:45, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

Looks good to me - marking the request as answered. Day Creature (talk) 05:43, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Cstuartroe (talk) 20:48, 20 December 2025 (UTC)

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