The Stuff of Thought
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- Episode: Swearing Is More Important Than You Think | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 540
Podcast: Freakonomics RadioQuestion: you've got this kind of euphemism treadmill that Stephen Pinker talks about where it starts off as a bad word, but then people use it more and more, and then you get used to it, and then it falls away, and then you need to come up with another bad word.