![]() Bergen shows us, it also opens a new window onto how our brains process language and why languages vary around the world and over time. ![]() As linguist and cognitive scientist Benjamin K. It can be funny, cathartic, or emotionally arousing. Swearing, it seems, is an intimate part of us that we have decided to selectively deny. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we'll mutter in relief seconds after they fall asleep. And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains. ![]() It may be starred, beeped, and censored - yet profanity is so appealing that we can't stop using it. ![]()
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