Thursday, August 24, 2006

Does Swearing Corrode Society?


Filed under: Language in society

“Swearing is basically a way to relieve anger and frustration in a nonphysical way,” Timothy Jay, a dirty-word expert at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, explains. Because they’re so uniquely expressive, he says, curse words play an important—even privileged—role in our language and minds. They have a deep emotional tie—in that other words don’t have, and they persist through the final stages of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, long after the rest of our vocabulary is gone.

Read the full article at Psychology Today


See also:

>  Men write short, sarcastic texts
>  Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief
>  Almost before we spoke, we swore
>  How did our Ancestors’ Minds really work?
>  Dictionary: ‘Time’ is top noun in English language

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