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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves, by Benjamin K. Bergen

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The road from taboo things in the world to taboo words is nondeterministic. Even if excretion is culturally taboo, that doesn’t mean that all words describing it will be as well. Shit is more profane than poop. Fuck is profane, but copulate is not.

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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

by Benjamin K. Bergen

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