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.
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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."
Just damn.
LOL. I can just imagine me trying that line on my grandmother and getting away with it.
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.
And yet, the urban feral blacks buck the conclusion.....
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.
If it is multiple languages, you can be certain they are repeating themselves.
And you’re posting here on a Friday night...... :)
Since we’re sharing, the tests have put me between 155 and 165.
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.
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.
"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.
Wow. I never knew that everyone in the Navy is a f***ing Einstein!
“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*?
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