China Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Swearing Is Actually a Sign of More Intelligence - Not Less - Say Scientists The use of obscene or taboo language - or swearing, as it’s more commonly known - is often seen as a sign that the speaker lacks vocabulary, cannot express themselves in a less offensive way, or even lacks intelligence. Studies have shown, however, that swearing may in fact display a more, rather than less, intelligent use of language. While swearing can become a habit, we choose to swear in different contexts and for different purposes: for linguistic effect, to convey emotion, for laughs, or perhaps even to be deliberately nasty. Psychologists interested in when and why people swear try to look past the stereotype that swearing is the language of the unintelligent and illiterate. In fact, a study by psychologists from Marist College found links between how fluent a person is in the English language and how fluent they are in swearing. The former - verbal fluency - can be measured by asking volunteers to think of as many words beginning with a certain letter of the alphabet as they can in 1 minute. People with greater language skills can generally think of more examples in the allotted time. Based on this approach, the researchers created the swearing fluency task. This task requires volunteers to list as many different swear words as they can think of in 1 minute. By comparing scores from both the verbal and swearing fluency tasks, it was found that the people who scored highest on the verbal fluency test also tended to do best on the swearing fluency task. The weakest in the verbal fluency test also did poorly on the swearing fluency task. What this correlation suggests is that swearing isn’t simply a sign of language poverty, lack of general vocabulary, or low intelligence. Instead, swearing appears to be a feature of language that an articulate speaker can use in order to communicate with maximum effectiveness. And actually, some uses of swearing go beyond just communication. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Well I must be the smartest mother ****er on the planet. Ain't that some ****. Bow before me, ****es! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Are we allowed to use cursewords in scrabble? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Idk about this. My wife's sisters swear constantly, and saying they are dumber then a box if rocks would be an insult to the rocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tshile Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Sweet now we can get rid of the filter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sisko Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I just sent this to the wife. She needs to know that contrary to her long-held belief, I’m actually a genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 So my daughter picking up swears from me will help her in school? Great news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Every now and again some study comes out somehow proving that people who swear profusely are smarter than those that don’t. Now, I swear quite a bit but I’m also no genius. Aside from that, I think that encouraging swearing with silly studies like this only encourages negative behavior while repressing positive aspects of society like being polite. So, I’m sorry to say that I think this study is a bunch of bull hockey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malapropismic Depository Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 3 hours ago, TheGreatBuzz said: Well I must be the smartest mother ****er on the planet. Ain't that some ****. Bow before me, ****es! He really is, and he proved it. Check Random Thought Thread, for a puzzle, that only he was able to figure out, on page 6336. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 28 minutes ago, Bacon said: So my daughter picking up swears from me will help her in school? Great news! Bacon about to start doing his parent-teacher conferences remotely : ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6GR3mmNejY 6 minutes ago, Springfield said: Every now and again some study comes out somehow proving that people who swear profusely are smarter than those that don’t. Now, I swear quite a bit but I’m also no genius. Aside from that, I think that encouraging swearing with silly studies like this only encourages negative behavior while repressing positive aspects of society like being polite. So, I’m sorry to say that I think this study is a bunch of bull hockey. I, too, am not a fan of half-true scientific headlines where the scientist are like "yo, we never said that". I think there is some truth to having a larger vulgar vocabulary if you already have a large vocabulary, what I got was that smart people know more cusswords, that still doesn't mean they have to use them. You ever known somebody that when they cuss you know its on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berggy9598 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 We stopped making our players do push-ups for cussing, but seeing as it’s a private catholic college they now have to do idiot pushups for cussing around the wrong people. There might be something to this study. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I prefer the wit of someone who can savagely tear someone a new sphincter in a refined, classy manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 8 minutes ago, PokerPacker said: I prefer the wit of someone who can savagely tear someone a new sphincter in a refined, classy manner. I once told a student that after his mother got to know him, she became pro-choice. Does that count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 3 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said: I once told a student that after his mother got to know him, she became pro-choice. Does that count? Did you come up with it on your own, or did you borrow it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 4 minutes ago, PokerPacker said: Did you come up with it on your own, or did you borrow it? Came up with it on the fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 1 minute ago, TheGreatBuzz said: Came up with it on the fly. It is better than average. I'd go so far as to say very good. It is clean and topical, but it's missing proper use of big and lesser-known words that causes your victim to slink away to a dictionary to figure out the severity of the burns you dealt them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 3 minutes ago, PokerPacker said: It is better than average. I'd go so far as to say very good. It is clean and topical, but it's missing proper use of big and lesser-known words that causes your victim to slink away to a dictionary to figure out the severity of the burns you dealt them. I feel it is better to avoid that approach. I prefer that they leave in such a teary state of despair that they go home and think about how much they suck, not trying to remember what obscure words I used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Whoa. Cool. I was 10 years old in Fort Leavenworth,(Army Brat),when I was told I had a bad mouth and cussed too much. Heard from family and friends,(do as I say not as I do),all kinds of bad things about cussing. Now I find out instead of being this: I'm this: Sweet! All you ****ers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 57 minutes ago, PokerPacker said: I prefer the wit of someone who can savagely tear someone a new sphincter in a refined, classy manner. Take your supercilious twaddle and vacate this thread, you pediculous rakefire! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 9 minutes ago, China said: Take your supercilious twaddle and vacate this thread, you pediculous rakefire! My good sir, you have quite loquaciously afflicted me. I must respectfully request you refrain from future incursions on my character lest I be forced defenestrate you upon our next encounter to obtain satisfaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 1 minute ago, PokerPacker said: My good sir, you have quite loquaciously afflicted me. I must respectfully request you refrain from future incursions on my character lest I defenestrate you upon our next encounter. I care not for the thoughts of a furfuraceous fopdoodle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Just now, China said: I care not for the thoughts of a furfuraceous fopdoodle. Hmm, 'fopdoodle' may be of the uncommon word variety, but I just have a hard time taking that one seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 1 minute ago, PokerPacker said: Hmm, 'fopdoodle' may be of the uncommon word variety, but I just have a hard time taking that one seriously. It is an archaic term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 5 hours ago, TheGreatBuzz said: Well I must be the smartest mother ****er on the planet. Ain't that some ****. Bow before me, ****es! Don't confuse coprolalia for perspicacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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