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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.
There is no fucking way that this bullshit is anything but bullshit! Motherfucking fuckfuckers! Fuckshitfuck! Fuck!
Note to mods: I'm probably being sarcastic.
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!
New slogan: "Cursing, does a body good."Generation Trance: What generation are you?
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)
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
I want to propose that language is an advanced form of cursing.
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*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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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.
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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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...
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.