Science Says That People Who Curse a Lot Have Better Vocabularies Than Those Who Don't

[vellavu]

F*ck, yes!
Science Says That People Who Curse a Lot Have Better Vocabularies Than Those Who Don't

If someone's ever accused you of sounding less intelligent because you swear too much, don't worry - science has got your back. A 2015 study found that those who have a healthy repertoire of curse words at their disposal are more likely to have a richer vocabulary than those who don't.

This challenges the long-held stereotype that people swear because they can't find more intelligent words with which to express themselves.

As Stephen Fry once said, "The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just f*cking lunatic."

Psychologists Kristin Jay and Timothy Jay of Marist College and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (not clear if related) came up with the hypothesis that people who are well-versed in curse words are more likely to have greater overall language fluency too.

 

[joseph]

would not know do not curse.

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

Colourful language adds so much to expression. It's a part of my heritage that I've never forgotten, and I use it frequently. I have NO time for people who are easily offended by my mouth. Proper swearing is a gift.

 

[dstaraster]

How else are you supposed to get your computer to do what you tell it to? 😉

 

[thetopher]

I think the key is variety of colorful swearing. The stupid people who swear just use one word as punctuation and they sound like *beeping* *beeps* with *beep* coming out of their ears.
Also adding imagery helps put the swearing in a fun context; like 'he's an arse-wrangling c***-weasel or something.

 

[DeadlyDuo]

Swearing also acts as pain relief. It's why the first word out of your mouth when you stub your toe or hit your elbow is always a swear word.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

I would suggest that 'J' lives in Liverpool but does not herald from Liverpool, if he is a true Liverpudlian he just ruined a lot of effin jokes. As for thetopher his inability to use his 'beeps' in the correct manner. To suggest that imagery puts swearing in a fun context indicates he is using the wrong vernacular - I mean what is an 'a' wrangling 'c'-weasel. Me thinks he is fibbing, that he is trying to make us think he has a better vocabulary than he has. Off course there is the possibility that Christine and Timothy Jay are 'off with the fairies' and in which case this might be a load of Bull.
Does anyone know if the psychologists CJ and TJ are of the Marist College and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts or they were visitors who reside at the nearby nut-hatch or looney bin.
Note to self, must use a more colourful language. Or to use another computation of a liberal art-form.

 

[Ethan Reigns]

In the movie "Full Metal Jacket", R. Lee Ermey was hired on as a consultant since he had been a drill sergeant in the US Marine Corps but he convinced the director to hire him as the actor rather than the one who had already been cast by unleashing a stream of swearing for two minutes without repeating himself once.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

Oh wow, _ucking _ollocks, _ _agging, _ollocks and a few other words borrowed from that English guy who was in the nancy boy tribe. Does that mean I'm a professor of the English Language at the University of France in Los Angeles.

 

[Athena]

That's true because @Taake curses like a pirate, and her vocabulary is totes betterer that I's.

 

[WillowFromBuffy]

This is why, in the Buffyverse, only the British characters swear.

 

[Nix]

That is just too funny.

 

[nightshade]

Swearing also acts as pain relief. It's why the first word out of your mouth when you stub your toe or hit your elbow is always a swear word.

As someone who doesn't swear I can say this isn't true. Although I'm rather clumsy so always used to walking into things and banging arms!

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

I think the key is variety of colorful swearing. The stupid people who swear just use one word as punctuation and they sound like *beeping* *beeps* with *beep* coming out of their ears.
Also adding imagery helps put the swearing in a fun context; like 'he's an arse-wrangling c***-weasel or something.

Creative swearing is a gift. I'll never forget the first time I witnessed Malcolm Tucker in action. I nearly cried with laughter, it was so extraordinary.

 

[DeadlyDuo]

As someone who doesn't swear I can say this isn't true. Although I'm rather clumsy so always used to walking into things and banging arms!

But do you say a word that you use in place of swearing?

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

But do you say a word that you use in place of swearing?

Like "Oh poo" or "Gosh darn"? Hee hee.

 

[thrasherpix]

I wonder if it's really pain relief or it's an expression of adrenaline which generates both anger (which can cause swearing) and pain relief.

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

I wonder if it's really pain relief or it's an expression of adrenaline which generates both anger (which can cause swearing) and pain relief.

90% of the time, I'm not angry when I swear.

 

[thrasherpix]

When people are hurt, they tend to get angry. Just because one isn't smashing their dishes against the wall or going off on a tirade that leaves them exhausted after doesn't mean they're not angry.

That said, I know lots of people who casually swear all the time, and it can be done out of habit, comedic effect, and other reasons. I was only referencing the idea that swearing can cause pain relief.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

Do I support you, I stubbed a toe on the carpet and tripped over, I head butted the fridge. On going back to my seat I accidentally swallowed two panadols, they didn't taste nice without fluids and I swore, a lot. Thing is did I swear from the pain relief or that the fridge door was closed, I was going to get a slice of bread.