Cenk Uygur
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Do People Who Swear More Know More?
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January 18, 2016
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Jan 18, 20162:57Now PlayingA tiny little study indicates that there may be some correlation between using naughty words and having a big vocabulary. The journal Language Sciences found that people weren't using swear words because they couldn't think of non-swear words... they just liked swear words. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and John Iadarola (ThinkTank), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
""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 indicator of healthy verbal abilities.”
Stated plainly, people don’t swear because they lack the words with which to express themselves. They swear because that's how they want to express themselves -- and they tend to know MORE words than people who don’t.
But that isn't necessarily a good thing, as some of the most common swear words in the study have connotations that degrade women. In the study, "expressive" swear words were uttered more frequently than slurs except when those slurs pertained to women. Terms like "bitch" were uttered almost as frequently as those common words you might shout if you hit your finger with a hammer. And that suggests society still has a very long way to go."*
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