It's back to work for me this morning 😒
Maybe now it's a good to time to share that swearing contains its very own superpower.
Not that we would ever do it at Matilda's Lab!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1110041
#sciencenews #swearing
#swearing
Watch: Zohran Mamdani sworn in as Mayor of New York City
Just after midnight on January 1st, Zohran Kwame Mamdani was officially sworn in as the 112th Mayor of the City of New York, by New York State Attorney General Letitia James. Watch a replay.
#Swearing-Ins
@fesshole
Brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2eWDmUl4_Y
(Unfortunately some buggering arsehole has beeped this video which used to be jolly amusing.) :-(
#swearing #SwearWords
Have some Christmas-themed Strong Language! From the blog archives: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/tag/christmas/
Does swearing make you stronger? Science says yes.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/does-swearing-make-you-stronger-science-says-yes/
Fucking knew it :)
According to study author Dr Richard Stephens, “Swearing is an easily available way to help yourself feel focused, confident and less distracted, and ‘go for it’ a little more” when exercising.
It is so odd that some humans stigmatise some sounds. As someone who engineers sound, I know all sounds are equal, just frequencies, though some are more comfortable than others.
To an extent it is understandable, but hard to pin down as comfort is subjective. Both the unconsciously repressed, and the abusive narcissist/sociopath/psychopathy evades reality by conditioning fear of healthy sounds, attitudes or emotions in others.
Next to that is understandable avoidance of chaos caused by lack of internal emotional regulation, but the emotionally numbed person will stigmatise healthy expression. That becomes abuse fast. That makes me recall therapy clients who had been shamed and blamed by religious parents for representing or *being* realities the religion sought to deny. This is playing out in the current policies of the US, for instance, with many buying into hate largely processed unconsciously, rather than the slower and more rewarding socially enriching process of learning about the person or thing which is 'different'.
Sound is powerful, able to bypass conscious perception as it occurs so fast, and go straight to the accurate or inaccurate preferences of the unconscious mind. Like so many things, it can be labelled good or bad, but is really neutral. It is the limitation of our own processing that some say otherwise.
As they say in NLP, the communication is not what is said. It is what is heard.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/swearing-benefits-stronger-study-science-b2887663.html
Could’nt resist sharing this gem
It turns out profanities aren't just fun, they may actually be a secret superpower, boosting your strength and staying power, according to UK scientists(…)https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/why-swearing-makes-you-f-cking-stronger
#psycology #swearing
**“Don’t Hold Back”: Swearing Improves Strength Through State Disinhibition**
"_These findings suggest that swearing promotes psychological states conducive to maximizing effort and overcoming internal constraints._"
Stephens, R., Dowber, H., Richardson, C., & Washmuth, N. B. (2025). “Don't hold back”: Swearing improves strength through state disinhibition.American Psychologist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001650.
According to a new study reported in @sciencefocus, swearing can be good for us, allowing us to score better in tests of strength and endurance. "The way I express it is to say that swearing is a cheap, readily available, drug-free means of self-help," Dr. Richard Stephens told the magazine. We want to know: Are you a swearer?
"People who swear more are more intelligent" - or so it is said. I went looking for a source. It turns out the actual study showed that (as the study authors put it) "a voluminous taboo lexicon may better be considered an indicator of healthy verbal abilities rather than a cover for their deficiencies."
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S038800011400151X)
A voluminous taboo lexicon is a very different thing from a voluminous use of one taboo word, but somehow "people who know lots of words tend to also know lots of rude words" got morphed into "saying f**k a lot means you're smart".
The idea that swearing can reduce physical pain (different study obvs) is more accurate, but apparently the more one swears in general, the less it helps when in pain.
#swearing #language
**Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks**
"_Our findings show that Americans use fuck most frequently, while Australians least frequently but they are highly creative with spelling variants of the word._"
Laitinen, M. et al. (2025) 'Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks,' Lingua, 320, p. 103931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103931.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Swearing #SocialMedia #Sociolinguistics #Academia
Oh, the #irony of a contact page that tells you to bugger off! 🤦♂️ Who knew #swearing could be a substitute for actual #content or advice? Spoiler: It's not. 🙄
https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/ #contactpage #advice #humor #HackerNews #ngated
My official statement on this past weekend’s major controversy. #wewillrebuild 🫡🫡 #bc #bcgreens #bcpoli #swearing
My interest in (1) tennis and, unrelatedly, (2) the linguistics of profanity means that just now when I saw the phrase "WTA RG F" my brain briefly decided that it meant "what the actual Roland-Garros fuck"
#swearing #tennis #WTAF #profanity #abbreviations #language #RolandGarros
"Don’t give a f#@&" – give an...e.l.f.? A new ad slogan plays on a popular sweary idiom. @Fritinancy takes a look: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/dont-give-a-f/
"Is it even possible, linguistically, to 'give an e.l.f.'? Or a fuck?" @Fritinancy reports on a new, swear-adjacent marketing campaign:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/dont-give-a-f/
#swearing #profanity #marketing #fuck #DGAF #cosmetics #branding
Added a new example of fucking ambiguity to my @stronglang post
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/fucking-ambiguity/
#language #swearing #semantics #profanity #ambiguity #wordplay #words
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