Presents information on a number of obscene words in different languages around the world, offering advice on how and when to use them in foreign countries.

The first words you learn from a new language are the bad ones, I'll help you embrace that curiosity with 38 bad words from around the world! Here's a collectio

A humorous, trenchant and fascinating examination of how Western culture's taboo words have evolved over the millennia

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sen

"I now no longer use the better words." Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921