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Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture
tabdelgawad writes "The New York Times offers this excellent and entertaining writeup on cursing and its role in recent studies of the brain. The article discusses the universality of cursing across time, space, and culture, its varied roles, from linguistic evolution to anger management, and its uses in recent brain research. You can also read all about the sexual effects of uttering obscenities and the swearing habits of sorority women." From the article: "Researchers point out that cursing is often an amalgam of raw, spontaneous feeling and targeted, gimlet-eyed cunning. When one person curses at another, they say, the curser rarely spews obscenities and insults at random, but rather will assess the object of his wrath, and adjust the content of the 'uncontrollable' outburst accordingly." As someone who plays a lot of MMOGs, in my experience this is only mostly true.
I just had to say it. Sorry.
"Cats like plain crisps"
There is no fucking way that this bullshit is anything but bullshit! Motherfucking fuckfuckers! Fuckshitfuck! Fuck!
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Oh Shit! Did I think that out loud?!?! Man I'm going to look like such an ass! I'll never be able to make another comment and be respected around here agian!
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THat's not entirely true. A single swear word can be, well...
Rocco: Fucking... What the fuck. Who the fuck fucked this fucking... How did you two fucking fucks...
[shouts] FUCK!
Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.
(quote shamelessly stolen from The Boondock Saints)
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I want to propose that language is an advanced form of cursing.
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it's the only thing holding this family together! ... nutty fudgkins!
*everyone turns around and stares*
What? I said shit.
No you didn't. You said 'shazbot.'
I...left the stove on. *runs*
you can have my violent video games when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
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What a fucking bitch.
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Yea, the part about the sorority girls. I was pretty dissapointed. Here's the whole quote,
"The investigators have found, among other things, that men generally curse more than women, unless said women are in a sorority, and that university provosts swear more than librarians or the staff members of the university day care center."
There. I saved you 5 mins of reading just to be dissapointed that there wasn't really anything about sorority girls and sex, just cursing.
TFA:
"The title "Much Ado About Nothing," Dr. McWhorter said, is a word play on "Much Ado About an O Thing," the O thing being a reference to female genitalia."
You've got to be shitting me.
from the article:
"Researchers point out that cursing is often an amalgam of raw, spontaneous feeling and targeted, gimlet-eyed cunning"
WHAT THE F%@k IS "gimlet-eyed cunning"!?
Sorry....I guess I lost it there....
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80 comments and counting and I'm still yet to see a CUNT around here...very disapointing...oh, wait...this is slashdot - no girls allowed.
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But, if you say something like "dag nabbit", your brain has clearly had time to consider saying "fuck" and discarded it as vulgar. Hence, you've taken time to think about what you're saying, and your comment gets stored in a different location of the listening child's brain (and they go to a different place in the listening adult's brain).
That's not even remotely true.
I say "DOH!" because I attached my hand to my forehead with my shiny new pneumatic nail gun, not because I attached my hand to my forehead with my shiny new pneumatic nail gun, searched for a word, came up with "FUCK!", decided it was too vulgar, and settled on "DOH!".
Yeah, I remember those days. They sucked.
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A player in EVE completely lost it on teamspeak, the results had to be censored to get on the game forums, but the rest of us enjoyed it anyway
In SOVIET RUSSIA the hot grits profit you!
Bart: It will be like Treasure Island, only with more swearing. We'll be kings. Damn hell ass kings!
Sometimes people start to say a curse word but reconsider and say something worse, oddly enough. I'm sure we've all seen this.
English is easier said than done.
When electrodermal wires are placed on people's arms and fingertips to study their skin conductance patterns and the subjects then hear a few obscenities spoken clearly and firmly, participants show signs of instant arousal.
As a member of the "fuck as a comma crowd", swear words still have meaning, but that meaning has been severely diluted. I remember blushing the first time I heard a dirty joke, 25 years later, I doubt that there are any swear words or dirty jokes that would have the same affect.
I didn't pace myself and now I've used them all up. And I'm not even middle aged yet. What I'm I going to do when I really need to express myself? I need some new, improved, really vile words for when I'm really angry.
- bridgette
You donkeyhumping popefelchers! Only grabastic nunblowing babyraping cumburpers use such pedestrian terms like "Fuck".
On-the-fly Creatific Curse Constructions, is a great way to keep even the most guttermouthed cock-master off guard in a linguistic duel.
--A young Professor runs around the lab, shrieking "EUREKA" at the top of his lungs and grinning like a madman.--
Grad Student: Hey Professor, what's going on? did you spill the bromochloride down your pants on accident again?
Professor: I have had, perhaps, the most wonderful epiphany. It's BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT I TELL YOU.
Grad Student: Okay, I'll bite. What is it?
Professor: You know the Tri-Delt Sorority next door, the one with all the hot women that wouldn't speak to us unles we paid them?
Grad Student: Yeah...
Professor: Well, we're going to pay them to talk dirty to us.
Grad Student: But we barely have enough for Ramen noodles. We cook them here and pack them in our underwear for heat at night. Where are we going to get money?
Professor: That's the genius of it! We'll come up with a grant proposal for a cognitive study about swearing! Then we just tell them we have to find some local subjects who swear a lot, and we're SO IN!!!
Grad Student: It'll never work...
Deadwood is a good example of the contagiousness of cursing as well ... watch a single episode and suddenly you're yelling "COCKSUCKER!" at everyone who cuts you off in traffic.
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Turn your spam filter off for a day. Read every spam. Delete every one manually.
After the first 5 or 10 spams, you'll be up to "cocksucking motherfuckers". By 20 or 30, you'll be using "pigfucker" like it was a comma. After 50, you'll graduate to ("pigfucker" being redundant) "democrats, republicans, senators, congressmen", and by the time you're into the triple-digits, you'll have come up with your own expletives that'll put any rendition of The Aristocrats to shame.
This story is just an excuse for everyone to say fuck.
Dammit, this is going to be redundant, I'm posting anon.
In olden times, people were a lot more sensitive (man says "bull feathers" and an old woman faints). Now, it's ok to use such words (weather reporter says "... the weather just looks f#$@! for tomorrow"). In the future, it will be necessary to use words that cause people and their pets to catch fire (picture of man and dog running away, on fire).
I may have missed one frame, and got the words slightly wrong, but that is the gist of it.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, however, there is.
I say "DOH!" because I attached my hand to my forehead with my shiny new pneumatic nail gun, not because I attached my hand to my forehead with my shiny new pneumatic nail gun, searched for a word, came up with "FUCK!", decided it was too vulgar, and settled on "DOH!".
I'm just glad your language center isn't in the frontal lobe. Besides nailing your hand to your forehead, you could slip up and say a dirty word!
We taught our foreign exchange student that "woodchuck" was a swear word.
He would use it occasionally, when he was upset.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
It's even better in real life... my school had exchange students, and there was this kid from Spain that got so pissed off on day, and he just blew up 'YOU PIECE OF BITCH! EAT FUCK!!"
The rest of us dissolving into hysterics didn't help his mood much either >:)