This link has been bookmarked by 93 people . It was first bookmarked on 10 Oct 2007, by paul allitor.
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21 Oct 07
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An very good essay on cursing: why we do it, what it means, and why anyone even gives a shit.
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19 Oct 07
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The strange emotional power of swearing--as well as the presence of linguistic taboos in all cultures-- suggests that taboo words tap into deep and ancient parts of the brain. In general, words have not just a denotation but a connotation: an emotional coloring distinct from what the word literally refers to, as in principled versus stubborn and slender versus scrawny. The difference between a taboo word and its genteel synonyms, such as shit and feces, cunt and vagina, or fucking and making love, is an extreme example of the distinction. Curses provoke a different response than their synonyms in part because connotations and denotations are stored in different parts of the brain.
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18 Oct 07
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17 Oct 07
lencielwhat the fuck...
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16 Oct 07
Alex Jones"When it comes to political speech, we are living in a free-speech utopia. Late-night comedians can say rude things about their nation's leaders that, in previous centuries, would have led to their tongues being cut out or worse. Yet, when it come…
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Marc Ordinas i LlopisA good introduction to the history and psychology of swearing.
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15 Oct 07
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13 Oct 07
Don LaVangeOn what the fuck is going on...
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12 Oct 07
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Why we curse.
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Gordon HerdArticle from the US about swearing, and why we do it.
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11 Oct 07
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rakesh mindeed slowed down by an involuntary boggle as soon as the eyes alight on each word. The upshot is that a speaker or writer can use a taboo word to evoke an emotional response in an audience quite against their wishes. Thanks to the automatic nature of sp
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steve ulrichsteven pinker on curse/swear words and they psychology of them
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Tom WoodwardBut perhaps the greatest mystery is why politicians, editors, and much of the public care so much. Clearly, the fear and loathing are not triggered by the concepts themselves, because the organs and activities they name have hundreds of polite synonyms. N
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10 Oct 07
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travis hardiman"He wouldn't know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel"
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Eldritch CrankSteven Pinker explains why bad words are shocking.
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The mammalian brain contains, among other things, the limbic system, an ancient network that regulates motivation and emotion, and the neocortex, the crinkled surface of the brain that ballooned in human evolution and which is the seat of perception, knowledge, reason, and planning. The two systems are interconnected and work together, but it seems likely that words' denotations are concentrated in the neocortex, especially in the left hemisphere, whereas their connotations are spread across connections between the neocortex and the limbic system, especially in the right hemisphere.
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