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12 sty 2023 · Well, you're in luck because The History of Insults has some of the finest put-downs of all time - starting with the Ancient Romans and Greeks and working through the centuries to the Jazz Age. This means you can dish out the best burns to bacon-fed bell swaggers to your heart's content.
29 cze 2020 · Here are the funniest, sharpest, rudest and most devastating insults in history, from ancient Roman graffiti to the battlefields of Twitter.
26 sie 2020 · Literary insults -- Show business -- The United States -- International insults -- Sports -- Music -- Politics and history -- U.S. presidents -- Snappy comebacks -- Shakespeare -- One-liners
10 lis 2016 · Here are the funniest, sharpest, rudest and most devastating insults in history, from ancient Roman graffiti to the battlefields of Twitter.
This brief history of insults looks at their evolutionary origins, reveals the first recorded insults, and delves into the perils putdown artists have faced across the ages. The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilisation.
Widespread insults, such as ‘son of a bitch’, ‘scoundrel’, and ‘ruffian’, were used by late medieval and early modern clerics, aldermen, nobles, citizens, and craftsmen to attack the honour and social status of their opponents.
This is the only encyclopedia and social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and...
