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Cursing linked to higher intelligence
CBS Local Los Angeles ^ | 11/17/2016 | Jennifer Kastner

Posted on 11/18/2016 9:06:53 AM PST by ExSoldier

Benjamin Bergen is the author of the book: “What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves.”

“It turns out that there are amazing things you can find out about how the mind works, how the brain works, people’s human sociality just by looking at profanity,” he explained.

The professor of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego said cursing could be linked to higher intelligence.

“It turns out that on average, the ones who swear the most also have the biggest vocabulary overall,” Bergen added.

(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...


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KEYWORDS: intelligence; language; linguistics; military; profanity; psychology; society
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To: ExSoldier
Of course adults...particularly adult males...know all the words.But I firmly believe that there's not a thought,not an emotion,in this world that can't be more than adequately expressed without using certain four letter words.And in addition,refraining from using those words indicates a certain level of breeding...of “class”.
81 posted on 12/29/2016 5:01:33 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Gay State Conservative
I was raised as "class," in every way. I didn't really learn how to curse in depth until I became a U.S. Army Infantry Officer. Then I realized that in some cases, just SOME, the First Sergeants followed in the path of a seriously classy guy and a serious warrior: General George S. Patton.

Reporters: "General: Explain to us your colorful use of language." Patton: "Well, when I want it to stick, I give it to them HARD and DIRTY. Damnit, I'm not training these men to love me, I want them to KILL for me." In all of WWII, I doubt there was a guy with "classier lineage."

82 posted on 01/02/2017 11:43:49 PM PST by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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To: mowowie
Read post #81 and my response at #82.
83 posted on 01/02/2017 11:45:13 PM PST by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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To: ExSoldier

Just damn.


84 posted on 01/02/2017 11:53:11 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: ExSoldier

LOL. I can just imagine me trying that line on my grandmother and getting away with it.


85 posted on 01/02/2017 11:55:13 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: mowowie

Reminds me of when I was in college in France. I didn’t have a tv but one time we were in a Libyan student’s apartment and he had a tv, and a John Wayne movie was on, translated into French. Of course the French could not imagine John Wayne being forced to submit to MGM censors of the day and having to say “gee whillikers” and such when upset. So they just translated him saying the worst French epithets imaginable!! A bit shocking to me! But it did fit his character better than the lighter fare he was allowed to say back home.


86 posted on 01/02/2017 11:58:38 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: ExSoldier

And yet, the urban feral blacks buck the conclusion.....


87 posted on 01/06/2017 8:11:51 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ExSoldier

There can’t be any real correlation. Tons of stump ignorant people can’t get through one sentence without swearing.

It is absurd to say this without other relevant factors coming into play. Education, training, understanding of english.

I read this stody somewhere else a few weeks ago and thought it was way too simplistic to conclude this.


88 posted on 01/06/2017 8:15:16 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ExSoldier

If it is multiple languages, you can be certain they are repeating themselves.


89 posted on 01/06/2017 8:16:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: real saxophonist

And you’re posting here on a Friday night...... :)

Since we’re sharing, the tests have put me between 155 and 165.


90 posted on 01/06/2017 8:18:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Flying Circus

I agree. Those who use it sparingly get much more emphasis and it drives the seriousness of whatever, home much more to those who respond to swears.


91 posted on 01/06/2017 8:20:49 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Exactly. Use it very rarely when something really may call for it and its impact is not lost on people who need to take whatever just screwed up, seriously.

Its like spanking that way.


92 posted on 01/06/2017 8:22:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ExSoldier
Back in the late 1970s, after one of my brilliant comments about the cost to fix my car, my attention was then directed to a sign on the wall of the small Iowa town auto electrical repair shop which said:
"Profanity is the feeble effort of a small mind attempting to express itself forcefully."
Fwiw, an ethanol enhanced mind is often quite similar in this regard.
94 posted on 04/07/2017 7:29:05 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: ExSoldier

Wow. I never knew that everyone in the Navy is a f***ing Einstein!


95 posted on 07/03/2017 5:27:36 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: ExSoldier
The professor of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego said cursing could be linked to higher intelligence.

“It turns out that on average, the ones who swear the most also have the biggest vocabulary overall,” Bergen added.

How is it a *bigger* vocabulary when half the words you speak start with *f*?

96 posted on 07/22/2017 3:51:08 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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