![]() ![]() The fact that cursing has long been scorned by polite society makes it all the more delicious when one gets to say (or even hear) it. (Your hand can tolerate an ice bath longer if you repeat "shit," rather than "shoot," while doing it, she writes.) Profanities are even stored in a different part of the brain, far from the cerebral cortex, where most language and your Master's thesis lives, and down in the limbic system, with the blood pressure and heart rate. What can be better than the catharsis of a four-letter word, rapidly muttered, when you spill your latte at that little milk counter at Starbucks? Or more satisfying than an anguished f-bomb at the realization that the dinner-party duck totally did just burn?Īccording to the new book, Holy Sh*t! A Brief History of Swearingby Melissa Mohr, swearing is also practical - it helps us endure pain. Sure it's crude and ugly, but swearing helps us express our emotions. ![]() The Russians did it so much they recently banned it.Ĭursing is perhaps the only vice that's as frowned-upon as it is widespread. ![]() News anchors accidentally do it - sometimes on their first day of work. ![]()
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