Posted on 03/03/2007 6:28:05 AM PST by NYS_Eric
www.pottymouth.com
This may or may not come as a surprise, but there's more profanity on "The Internets" than in traditional media. Lots more. The enterprising blogger Patrick Ishmael (newsbuckit.blogspot.com) did an, excuse the pun, quick and dirty analysis of the ideological divide in online trash-talking. Make that, ideological chasm. He did a Google search for comedian George Carlin's famous "seven dirty words" on popular lefty and righty blogs. Lefty Daily Kos took top honors with 146,000 pages containing one or more of the words in question. Its lefty competitor, The Huffington Post, was close behind with 109,000. No right-wing site reached even 10,000 on the Carlin scale.
A commenter at the site refined the methodology to account for overall site size, finding a "'7 words' to pages" ratio of "1 profanity every 2 pages" for Daily Kos and "1 every 121 pages" for the Free Republic ("the foulest" of the righty sites). The study "isn't scien tific," Ishmael warns, "but hey, it's pretty @*%#$&! close."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
"... (the 'foulest' of the righty sites"
Duh! .. that's because the liberals come here and spew their foul language at us!!
ROTFLOL!
"The foulest of the righty sites"???
No bias there!
Fornicate with those illegitimate rectums! May the Deity Condemn them to Hades! Manure!
I've noticed the same. Thanks for posting.
I suppose you think the Rudyphiles are pure as the wind-driven snow.....
Most of the dirty words are probably on John Faggot Edwards threads.
A common myth and misconception.
An occasional well-chosen word can be devastatingly effective in an otherwise erudite vocabulary. Even the most literate giants of literature feel at home with the concept.
Best illustrated by way of example.
Too funny and well timed - a colleague just gave me a copy of that essay. I stand corrected. Thank you.
C'mon folks. Let's strive to do better!
Thanks. I forgot to link to the page. Sorry.
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