Swearing as a Response to Pain—Effect of Daily Swearing Frequency

2011/11/11 by Richard Stephens, Claudia Umland · 1 voice · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Humor Studies and Applications #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2011.09.004

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• Prohibition is how we maintain potency of the vulgar. Over-permissiveness dilutes our range of expression and would mean we'd have to find new words. Like the whole thing where swearing increases pa [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]