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75:" is generally used in the more restricted sense. In regular and mostly informal conversations, the presence of vulgarity, if any, are mostly for intensifying, exclaiming or scolding. In modern times, vulgarism continues to be frequently used by people. A 204:—in this case from a dialect which is not that of a province, but of a low or uneducated social class. ... is usually a variety of Standard English, but a bad variety. 443: 224:'ave") has been considered a mark of the lower classes in England at least since the late 18th century, as dramatized in 196:, and is of such a nature as to be associated with the speech of vulgar or uneducated speakers. The origin of pure 238:(1833) by W. H. Savage, reflected upper-middle-class anxieties about "correctness and good breeding". 55:, but a linguistic or literary vulgarism encompasses a broader category of perceived fault not confined to 267: 91:, in which people use vulgarity so often that it becomes less and less offensive to people, according to 83:
in 2005 shows that the age group of 10–20 years old speak more vulgarity than the rest of the world's
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Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power: Speech Presentation and Latin Literature
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Expression considered non-standard characteristic of uneducated speech or writing
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combined. The frequent and prevalent usage of vulgarity as a whole has led to a
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is usually that they are importations, not from a regional but from a class
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The moral and aesthetic values explicit in such a definition depends on
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Vulgarisms in a literary work may be used deliberately to further
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as the Latin of everyday life is conventionally contrasted to
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The Assumption of Moses: A Critical Edition with Commentary
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Ossi Ihalainen, "The Dialects of English since 1776", in
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The Vulgarisms and Improprieties of the English Language
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meaning "the masses, undifferentiated herd, a mob". In
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viewed as authoritative. For instance, the "misuse" of
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English in Nineteenth-Century England: An Introduction
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or characteristic of uneducated speech or writing. In
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The English word "vulgarism" derives ultimately from
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Index

literary style
non-standard
colloquial
lexical
vulgarity
synonymous
profanity
obscenity
scatological
errors of pronunciation
misspellings
malapropisms
Vulgarity
research
Oxford University
population
paradox
The New York Times
Latin
pejorative
classical studies
Vulgar Latin
Classical Latin
literary language
"Golden Age"
canon
Cicero
Caesar
Vergil
Ovid

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