People who are really good at swearing have an important advantage

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 6:49 pm

Those who are liberal in their use of swear words are not the lazy and uneducated individuals they are often made out to be, a new study claims. In fact, a well-stocked vocabulary of swear words is actually a healthy indicator of other verbal abilities. Writing in the Language Sciences journal, US-based psychologists Kristin Jay and Timothy Jay, dismiss the long-held belief that swearing is a sign of inarticulateness. Working with the “poverty of vocabulary” concept (the assumption that people swear because they lack the intellectual capacity to find another way to express themselves) their experiment aimed to find out whether those more fluent in the art of swearing are less fluent in other forms of vocabulary.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/people-who-are-really-good-at-swearing-have-an-important-advantage-a6770486.html

by Original Quill Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:23 pm

Saw that. Fook yes!

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:37 pm

Original Quill wrote:Saw that. Fook yes!

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:39 pm

Well, that's you fucked when you call people potty mouth isn't it.

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:40 pm

sassy wrote:Well, that's you fucked when you call people potty mouth isn't it.

Are but in your case its funny how you react when i do call you a potty mouth as you just get worse and upset for nothing lol

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:44 pm

I don't react in any way, because your opinion doesn't impact on my consciousness, you have no importance to me.

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:45 pm

sassy wrote:I don't react in any way, because your opinion doesn't impact on my consciousness, you have no importance to me.

i would say your posts prove you just contradicted yourself throughout lol

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:46 pm

A reasoned post proved your argument. Only in your little head Didge, you are nowt but a fart in the universe.

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:49 pm

sassy wrote:A reasoned post proved your argument. Only in your little head Didge, you are nowt but a fart in the universe.

What has the size of the persons head got to do with anything sassy, are you claiming size is a denotion of a lack of intelligence?

You do realise that actually Africans have a smaller cranial size than asians and whites and what has been wrongly used to claim inferiority by racists. As the size of the brain does not denote whether someone is intelligent or not.

by eddie Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:57 pm

Shut up you bunch of fucking fuckers, I am well fucking intelligent becaeue that fucking post says so!

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:58 pm

eddie wrote:Shut up you bunch of fucking fuckers, I am well fucking intelligent becaeue that fucking post says so!

How fucking dare you fucking swear at me you fuckface fucking fucker

Laughing

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:59 pm

eddie wrote:Shut up you bunch of fucking fuckers, I am well fucking intelligent becaeue that fucking post says so!

Bloody Hell, can't you sodding do better than that! Fuck me, that's really frigging amateur lol

by eddie Tue Dec 15, 2015 8:00 pm

Ah fuck off the pair of you fuckers People who are really good at swearing have an important advantage 2794048296

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 8:04 pm

eddie wrote:Ah fuck off the pair of you fuckers

by Victorismyhero Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:19 pm

now just a friggin minit you thrice misbegotten tarts and pimps
you forum whores and sluts
excuse me whilst I piss upon your pusilanimous exhalations

BUT

it is I who have the fucking biggest ego

I gazed into the abyss, and the abyss gazed back into me...and screamed

by Victorismyhero Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:19 pm

so shove that into your scythe stone pouch (hint cu**)

by Victorismyhero Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:23 pm

btw any of you whores pudentia know what a "firkin" is?????

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:26 pm

Lord Foul wrote:btw any of you whores nether regions know what a "firkin" is?????

Its a brewery and why do I know that?
They used to have famous pubs with some of the strongest bitters I have ever had.
used to go to the Pheonix and Firkin in Denmark Hill

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:28 pm

I am talking many years ago in London, so no idea if they are still going

by Raggamuffin Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:32 pm

Yes, I remember such pubs.

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:34 pm

Raggamuffin wrote:Yes, I remember such pubs.

lol had some made nights out in them, but I am talking about 25 years ago lol

Are they still around Rags?

Just remember they had some lethal bitters and ales.

I am sure this is not what victor mean though lol

by Victorismyhero Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:42 pm

wrong...

by Raggamuffin Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:44 pm

Richard The Lionheart wrote:
Raggamuffin wrote:Yes, I remember such pubs.

lol had some made nights out in them, but I am talking about 25 years ago lol

Are they still around Rags?

Just remember they had some lethal bitters and ales.

I am sure this is not what victor mean though lol

I don't know - it's a while since I've been in one too. Laughing

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:44 pm

Lord Foul wrote:wrong...

Only wrong as to what you were thinking of, as I just checked its still a brewery Laughing

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:45 pm

Raggamuffin wrote:
Richard The Lionheart wrote:

lol had some made nights out in them, but I am talking about 25 years ago lol

Are they still around Rags?

Just remember they had some lethal bitters and ales.

I am sure this is not what victor mean though lol

I don't know - it's a while since I've been in one too.

Fond memmories Laughing

by Victorismyhero Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:46 pm

the "firkin" is the standard british unit of excess

as in "too firkin much"
Laughing

by Victorismyhero Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:48 pm

in reality of course its:-

a small cask formerly used for liquids, butter, or fish.
a unit of liquid volume equal to half a kilderkin (usually 9 imperial gallons or about 41 litres).

by Guest Tue Dec 15, 2015 10:48 pm

Lord Foul wrote:the "firkin" is the standard british unit of excess

as in "too firkin much"

Well if you had ever been to a Firkin pub, then that very much is apt to how you would end up.

Laughing

That really did make me chuckle though so have a thanks

by veya_victaous Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:43 pm

Lord Foul wrote:btw any of you whores pudentia know what a "firkin" is?????

pretty sure it is the same thing as a 'farkin'

pirat

"it's farkin long way maate"
or when you reach the pub..
"Stone da Crowz, I'm as dry as a dead dingoes donga, get us farktonne of chips and a couple'o'pints"
pirat

by Irn Bru Tue Dec 15, 2015 11:44 pm

Timothy Jay in his book "Why We Curse" (John Benjamins Pub Co. 2000), suggests that it's caused by damage to the amygdala, a region of the brain that normally mitigates anger and aggression. Because cursing is a form of verbal aggression, amygdala damage could result in the inability to control aggression, including verbal aggression, or cursing.

That's more like it init and I seldom swear on line?

Laughing

by veya_victaous Wed Dec 16, 2015 12:19 am

Irn Bru wrote:Timothy Jay in his book "Why We Curse" (John Benjamins Pub Co. 2000), suggests that it's caused by damage to the amygdala, a region of the brain that normally mitigates anger and aggression. Because cursing is a form of verbal aggression, amygdala damage could result in the inability to control aggression, including verbal aggression, or cursing.

That's more like it init and I seldom swear on line?

I swear less online does that count scratch

Possibly right though, by nature I am Aggressive.

although I suggest the other
People don't curse cause the have been too conditioned by the early stages of domestication.
Sheeple don't Swear cause they are told not to. geek

and No honest person could look at politicians and not say 'fucking ----' Wink

by Irn Bru Wed Dec 16, 2015 12:28 am

veya_victaous wrote:
Irn Bru wrote:Timothy Jay in his book "Why We Curse" (John Benjamins Pub Co. 2000), suggests that it's caused by damage to the amygdala, a region of the brain that normally mitigates anger and aggression. Because cursing is a form of verbal aggression, amygdala damage could result in the inability to control aggression, including verbal aggression, or cursing.

That's more like it init and I seldom swear on line?

I swear less online does that count

Possibly right though, by nature I am Aggressive.

although I suggest the other
People don't curse cause the have been too conditioned by the early stages of domestication.
Sheeple don't Swear cause they are told not to.

and No honest person could look at politicians and not say 'fucking ----'

I think it's when it is used aggresively and laced with hateful abuse that that reasoning kicks in. Sort of uncontrolled as the words say.

by veya_victaous Wed Dec 16, 2015 12:43 am

as opposed to just speaking Australian.
pirat

by Irn Bru Wed Dec 16, 2015 12:46 am

veya_victaous wrote:as opposed to just speaking Australian.

Strewth

by Raggamuffin Wed Dec 16, 2015 10:03 am

People who swear all the time are generally a bit gobby and loud-mouthed, and I'm not generally keen on gobby loud-mouthed people, but I quite like it when someone who doesn't usually swear does it - it makes them seem more human and approachable.

by Syl Wed Dec 16, 2015 3:23 pm

Swearing doesn't bother me either online or in RL....I find smutty talk tiresome though.
I tend to find people who eff and blind all the time, or call others sweary type names....are usually a bit thick.

by Original Quill Wed Dec 16, 2015 5:28 pm

I don't think swearing has anything to do with aggression, or even boisterousness or abuse. It's a form of expression.

John Dewey taught us (Dewey, How We Think) that we think in narratives, not nouns. So how we feel about something is intricately entwined with what we are talking about. E.g., we don't just think of OJ Simpson...we think of that damn OJ Simpson, who murdered his wife, damn his fookin' eyes! So, swearing is a way to incorporate the exact flavor of the narrative, or how we feel.

by Raggamuffin Wed Dec 16, 2015 5:43 pm

Syl wrote:Swearing doesn't bother me either online or in RL....I find smutty talk tiresome though.
I tend to find people who eff and blind all the time, or call others sweary type names....are usually a bit thick.

Yes, smutty talk all the time is really boring and irritating.

by Original Quill Wed Dec 16, 2015 5:53 pm

Quill wrote:I don't think swearing has anything to do with I don't think swearing has anything to do with aggression, or even boisterousness or abuse. It's a form of expression.

Let me clarify: of course, aggression, boisterousness and abuse are forms of expression. What I meant was that swearing doesn't necessarily correlate with with these things. Swearing may express, say, aggression, but it may equally express the opposite. It just depends on the context.

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