[WalterGR]

I think this would be a humorous list to have around, if only to find out what people are being offended by these days.

I run a slang dictionary website where visitors can score how offensive they find the terms. The 100 most offensive are listed here:

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/lists/most-vulgar-words/

It's not multilingual and not open source, but it does capture some of the "state of the art" of dirty words.

[Intermernet]

That's brilliant! Are you sure you wouldn't consider providing an updated 'top 100' list as a service to anyone who felt they could use them in some hitherto-unknown way?

Also, hope it's not a sore point, but are Google still being unreasonable about the citations on your site? If so, is there anyone from Google reading this that can have a look into this for him? It seems a bit unfair (to say the least) that a dictionary is penalized for citing sources, surely that's just responsible editorial! (Link with some info if you're interested http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/google-panda-penalty/)

[WalterGR]

That's brilliant!

Thanks!

Are you sure you wouldn't consider providing an updated 'top 100' list as a service to anyone who felt they could use them in some hitherto-unknown way?

I'd absolutely love to. But with Google penalizing the site for the majority of the past 2 years, I've become extra-sensitive about content on my site being available anywhere else on the web. In another world, I'd be ecstatic any time I came across material sourced from the site. But as it stands, I've given some thought to filing my first DMCA requests - thus becoming part of that chilling effect that gave chillingeffects.org its name.

I have put the data to some good use. http://www.offensivest.com/books/ ranks English works in the Project Gutenberg corpus by vulgarity. The site desperately needs some TLC: at the least, tweaks to the methodology and a page explaining what that methodology is.

I have more ideas for using the data, but I spend 90% of my time trying to get rid of the penalties.

So...

Also, hope it's not a sore point, but are Google still being unreasonable about the citations on your site?

Yes, very much so.

[Intermernet]

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope someone with some influence realizes the silliness (not to belittle the situation) of this whole affair. I presume sites like the Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/) get away scott free by not providing any source links at all!

You have my promise, at least, that I won't reproduce any of your work (until you deem it good to go) except in the form of drunken pub factoids :-)

I love, for example, that the complete works of William Shakespeare is currently number 4 on the most vulgar books list!

[Dylan16807]

It's certainly interesting as a list of sex slang but the ranking doesn't make much sense. A lot of these are ridiculous phrases and somehow "come down" as a simple euphemism is rated worse than a bunch of variants of the F word. (or "come down" as in drugs losing effect but that's even more baffling to be one of the most offensive words)

[leephillips]

Fascinating. I knew there was a lot of hate for the BBC, but I was still surprised - and then I clicked on it.