Blog — cursing

New study about curse words shows "most uses of swear words are not done out of anger, but to produce positive effects, mainly humor." Yes!! Plus, "swearing can lower physical pain. It has a cathartic effect that enables us to react and live through pain better." I'm telling you!! Fuck Cancer!! Another study has found that people who swear tend to have larger vocabularies: "The ability to generate taboo language is not an index of overall language poverty," wrote the researchers behind a new study published in the journal Language Sciences. "A voluminous taboo lexicon may better be considered an...