The Psychology of Swearing

Posted by Alex in ABC World News Webcast on August 3, 2007 at 4:52 pm


I’m excited to start a new collaboration with ABC World News Webcast. from time to time, we’ll feature a fun-filled, bite-sized video clip from the website. Like this one:

Ever F#@$*! wonder why we curse in the first place? Do curse words actually harm people? Is cursing more common than ever before? How old are the F- and S-words anyhow?

In this ABC World News webcast, Timothy Jay, the author of Cursing in America, lets you in on the answers: The Psychology of Swearing


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13 comments to "The Psychology of Swearing"

  1. Adam Stanhope
    August 3rd, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    Excellent job hooking up with ABC News people, Alex!

  2. Paul
    August 3rd, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    a fun-filled, bite-sized video clips

    Does anyone at Neatorama speak English as a first language?

  3. Jerse
    August 3rd, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    How come everyone had a Boston accent?

    That's sexist.

  4. DCer
    August 3rd, 2007 at 6:13 pm

    Why is the swearer a person of color? Is he the host?

  5. Alex
    August 3rd, 2007 at 7:30 pm

    Filled with fun stuff: fun-filled, short and sweet: bite-sized.

    English isn't my first language, but it's my experience that most native speaker butcher the language anyhow. At least on the Internet. :)

  6. Paul
    August 3rd, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    I apologize for sounding like the language police. But your plural usage is awful. It's "fun-filled, bite-sized video clips," not "A fun-filled, bite-sized video clips." Also it should be "native speakerS butcher the language..." And you're right, they do. But that's no excuse. Be a better blogger today!

  7. ssmith
    August 3rd, 2007 at 10:52 pm

    Obscenity is the crutch of the inarticulate, motherfuckers.

  8. Alex
    August 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 pm

    No apologies needed, Paul - actually, my spelling is worse than my grammar. Only gail, who is an English teacher, writes perfectly on Neatorama.

  9. Alex
    August 3rd, 2007 at 11:28 pm

    Plural words always trip me - that and past/present tenses. My native tongue (I grew up speaking Indonesian) has no pesky plural, tenses or gender-specific pronouns.

  10. L
    August 4th, 2007 at 2:17 am

    At least you didn't have to learn to speak French, Alex. Then you'd have masculine and feminine nouns on top of everything else. I never did get the hang of those...

  11. Paul
    August 4th, 2007 at 6:45 am

    Well I'll admit that my Indonesian totally sucks; so does my french, her, and I took 3 years in high school, him!

  12. Retrokatze
    August 5th, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    @ L:

    *heh* Try German. We got three pronouns: masculine, feminine and neuter. And cases. Mustn't forget the cases!

  13. onur
    September 10th, 2007 at 5:48 am

    :AS


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