Today, He Is Yet Again in a Very Bad Mood, What a Bastard He Is! On the Historical Influence of Pandemics on Profanity in Dutch
Disciplines
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Dutch
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10.18290/rh21696s-3>
Recent literature on politeness in language has observed that people are nowadays swearing more and use coarse language in which disease terms clearly prevail. This article aims to investigate the influence of past pandemics on Dutch. After a short historical introduction, the lexical traces of the various pandemics are discussed.