re: #82 Blind Frog Belly White

My wingnut cousin posted a meme on FB - “If you can’t say it without cuss words, it’s probably not worth saying.”

I restrained myself from responding with “Bullshit.” I find myself exasperated with people who get all wigged out over ‘salty language’.

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Here’s some good fucking news—research published last month in the journal Language Sciences indicates that a vulgar vocabulary isn’t the mental crutch many believe it to be. In fact, people who swear more may have stronger language skills overall.

In “Taboo word fluency and knowledge of slurs and general pejoratives: deconstructing the poverty-of-vocabulary myth,” psychologists Kristin and Timothy Jay, of Marist college and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, respectively, essentially pit two competing language theories against each other in order to determine the place of swear words within our broader language palette.