Perhaps the Anglos and Saxons are just more genteel?

This is not really a comment about the finding, more one about how one interprets the finding:

Is the Anglosphere also the Swearosphere?

Data from Spotify suggests that explicit podcasts are far more popular in the English-speaking world

Well, OK.

We can imagine this to be true. Anglo Saxon, well, we all use that euphemism for F and C and the like as being Anglo Saxon euphemisms. Or, rather, all the other words we use for them to be more polite as being the euphemisms.

Every language, of course, contains the F and C. But here we come to that little problem. For what is actually being measured here is not use of those. Rather, whether people who use them are, in fact, warning potential listeners to podcasts that they are using them. And, well. Is the warning because the A-S are more likely to use those F and C? Or is it because those A-S who use the F and C are more likely to warn? Are we talking about usage, or warning?

Among us there are a number of languages that have been, or are, spoken. We know of none where the words - you know, F, C and the rest - are not used.

No, this is not something about languages, nor is it about cultures. Rather, it’s about being very, very, careful of the thing that you think you’re measuring. English speakers warn listeners about demotic and foul language more than those of other languages. OK. Is that because the A-S use more bad language, or because they’re more polite about it?

OK.

Now, what about everything else people say? Are those expressed desires because of something basic, or a politesse?

Tim Worstall