On some tendences in modern Germanic languages reflecting contradictions in social life

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Some consideration on the tendencies in development of modern Germanic languages are presented. These tendencies reflect social, ethnic, racial and other contradictions in the life of modern societies. Providing maximal political correctness is opposed to a reverse tendency: increase of language aggressiveness in certain communication registers, in particular in Internet. Manifestation of these tendencies is supposed to be dependent to some extent on the nature of the languages themselves.

Political correctness, euphemisms, languages aggression, social and cultural chauvinism, obscene words

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