Cursing linked to higher intelligence

CBS Local Los Angeles ^ | 11/17/2016 | Jennifer Kastner

[Gay State Conservative]

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”.

[ExSoldier]

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."

[ExSoldier]

Read post #81 and my response at #82.

[Yaelle]

Just damn.

[Duchess47]

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

[Yaelle]

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.

[Secret Agent Man]

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

[Secret Agent Man]

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.

[Secret Agent Man]

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

[Secret Agent Man]

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

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

[Secret Agent Man]

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.

[Secret Agent Man]

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.

[GBA]

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.

[Seruzawa]

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

[metmom]

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*?