A thought for the day, we haven't had one for a while!
Currently, experts know very little about where swearing gets its power, but power it carries!
What we do know about swearing:
- It can trigger the “fight or flight” function
- It helps with catharsis
- It might be located in/come from different parts of the brain from other speech/language-use regions.
I'm a hell of a fucking swearer, as some of you know, I inherited the habit from my father, who was terrible compared to me - when the mood, an over-officious nabob or some plain-old arsehole - took him, and it strikes me that those who dislike ALL swearing (or 'cussing' as they often call it?), tend toward fear of emotion in all it's forms.
It's not that they necessarily tend to religious faith (although a lot do) or tend toward conservatism per se, although many do, but rather that they are slightly afraid of life, and rich-life in particular. And, if the above article is to be believed; they are under-using one or two areas of their brains?
Non-scientific observation - by me! - seems to suggest non-swearers often have frightfully ordered lives, and that's actually sad - life is to be lived, not ordered into little grey tick-boxes, and when; in living life, it throws a curve-ball at you, a good expletive will help dull the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"!
Thought for the day - swear more! It's healthy!
