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The seven dirty words (or "Filthy Words") are seven English-language words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in 1972 in his monologue "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". The words are: ''shit'', ''piss'', ''fuck'', ''cunt'', ''cocksucker'', ''motherfucker'', and ''tits''.〔James Sullivan: ''Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin'', p. 4 ()〕 At the time, the words were considered highly inappropriate and unsuitable for broadcast on the public airwaves in the United States, whether radio or television. As such, they were avoided in scripted material, and bleep censored in the rare cases in which they were used; broadcast standards differ in different parts of the world, then and now, although most of the words on Carlin's original list remain taboo on American broadcast television . The list was not an official enumeration of forbidden words, but rather was compiled by Carlin. Nonetheless, a radio broadcast featuring these words led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that helped establish the extent to which the federal government could regulate speech on broadcast television and radio in the United States. ==Background== During one of Lenny Bruce's performances in 1966, he said he was arrested for saying nine words, and says them in alphabetical order: ''ass'', ''balls'', ''cocksucker'', ''cunt'', ''fuck'', ''motherfucker'', ''piss'', ''shit'', ''tits''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Lenny Bruce Performance Film )〕 The last seven words are the same as George Carlin's. In 1972, George Carlin released an album of stand-up comedy entitled ''Class Clown''. One track on the album was "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", a monologue in which he identified these words, expressing amazement that these particular words could not be used, regardless of context. He was arrested for disturbing the peace when he performed the routine at a show at Summerfest in Milwaukee. On his next album, 1973's ''Occupation: Foole'', Carlin performed a similar routine titled "Filthy Words", dealing with the same list and many of the same themes. Pacifica station WBAI broadcast this version of the routine uncensored on October 30 that year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seven dirty words」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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