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That paper is fucking great!

absofuckinglutely agree!

Aw, you guys are so fucking nice!

PS I should make it clear that my coauthor wrote virtually the whole fucking thing. She said there was no fucking reason why academic writing needed to be so fucking boring. If the content was any fucking good, it would fucking well get accepted.

And you know what? She was fucking right!

Goddamn, that was interesting. More, please.

I keep telling my coauthor that we need to write a follow-on article!

Manny wrote: "I keep telling my coauthor that we need to write a follow-on article!"

Based on obscenity, an xkcd cartoon, or both?

The relationship between profane intensifiers and speech recognition quality needs to be examined further. It's fucking important!

Too bloody right.

(I doubt "bloody" counts as offensive nowadays, but it fits the phrase better.)

One of the curious findings of the experiment was that different intensifiers appeared to work differently well: "fucking" was effective, but "goddamn" wasn't. But there wasn't enough data to be sure of this. We really need to repeat with a larger sample.

It would be interesting to find out whether the use of fucking (in the fuck2 sense) in a review improves the count of votes. Or maybe it's adjectives like awesome or super or a combination thereof?

As a person who never uses expletives in reviews, I cannot say whether it will improve the vote count.

But it may FUCKING well.

Matt wrote: "It would be interesting to find out whether the use of fucking (in the fuck2 sense) in a review improves the count of votes. Or maybe it's adjectives like awesome or super or a combination thereof?"

If you can figure out the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ API enough to download a decent sample of data, I'm happy to write some corpus analysis scripts...

Nandakishore wrote: "As a person who never uses expletives in reviews, I cannot say whether it will improve the vote count.

But it may FUCKING well."

I see that, as the Captain of the Pinafore would have put it, you never swear a big, big F.

Well, hardly ever.

Cecily wrote: "Too bloody right.

(I doubt "bloody" counts as offensive nowadays, but it fits the phrase better.)"

There's an anecdote about a tourist in England, who, not knowing the word for "rare", asks the waiter for a bloody steak. The waiter, all stiff upper lip, responds, "Very good, Sir, and would you like some fucking potatoes with that?"

Manny wrote: "One of the curious findings of the experiment was that different intensifiers appeared to work differently well: "fucking" was effective, but "goddamn" wasn't. But there wasn't enough data to be su..."

I would refer to the research of , whose results seems to corroborate yours.

He has a way with words, doesn't he?

Bjorn wrote: "There's an anecdote about a tourist in England, who, not knowing the word for "rare", asks the waiter for a bloody steak..."

Neat. (In practice, the intonation of the two uses of "bloody" usually disambiguates, but a non-native speaker might not use the right one.)

that seems like a bitchin' journal! are all the articles that fucking informative?

No fucking way! This paper is so fucking unique it's not true.

Manny wrote: "No fucking way! This paper is so fucking unique it's not true."

As usual, you have fucking outdone yourself!

Thank you Ivonne! But as noted above, my coauthor should get all the fucking credit.

Excuse me, these weren't Europeans, these were Australians.

This fucking article give some reason why it's easier for me as a fucking ESL to write words like "fucking" in a fucking comment than it is for English speakers:



and a fucking video from a US expat in Germany on the same fucking topic

Merde, c'est vrai! Putain!

(It just struck me that "Putain" and "Putin" only differ by one letter. Significant or what?)

Yeah, significkant. Etyms at work here. I wonder how the French pronunciations differ.

Well, in French you actually spell it "Poutine" (roughly rhymes with "you mean"), so it differs by several letters. But I'm ignoring that.

Let's see what Google Translate comes up with when we let it translate "Poutine" into, say, Swedish:

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Ha! While browsing the Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm I came upon Trumpeltrei (also Trumpenwerk) which stands for farce, nonsense, tomfoolery, jest and so on.
I didn't know the word, but I think I'm going to use from now on.

Matt wrote: "Ha! While browsing the Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm I came upon Trumpeltrei (also Trumpenwerk) which stands for farce, nonsense, tomfoolery, jest and so on.
I didn't know ..."

Brilliant.

On the other hand, there's the Swedish word trumpen, meaning sad or grumpy. Sad!

Bjorn wrote: "On the other hand, there's the Swedish word trumpen, meaning sad or grumpy. Sad! "

Brilliant.

We also have (had, because it's old) trumpen; a verb meaning the cumbersome movement of one's feet, like "to trudge" or "to plod".

first time a review of an Xkcd related book in Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ linked to a paper by the reviewer?

Oh, I hope not!