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14th Dec 2015

Great news if you love swearing because you’re smarter than most

We f**ing knew already

Paul Moore

We f**ing knew already.

Irish people have a unique appreciation for swear words because we’ve somehow managed to take the taboo subject of bad language and turn it into an art form.

Think about all those words that are unique to our 32 counties like bollix, gowl, geebag, gobshite and more.

I’ve just cursed so much that Three Hail Marys are in order, but there’s some good news for those shitehawks that love to swear because it turns out that you’re smarter than most.

Shitehawk TOAFEATURE

A recent piece of research in the Language Sciences journal by US-based psychologists Kristin Jay and Timothy Jay has dismissed the long-held belief that swearing is a sign of inarticulateness.

Their hypothesis aimed to disprove the theory that people who f**ing swear can’t think of any other poxy words that are more socially acceptable to use.

mfuck

60 candidates were asked to list as many swear words as they possibly could in a brief period of time but they were then asked to quickly list words from other categories too.

The research showed that “taboo fluency is positively correlated with other measures of verbal fluency” meaning that people who frequently use bad language have a fairly extensive vocabulary along with a good understanding of the social environment that’s around them.

There you have it, if one of your friends keeps accusing you of swearing too much then the correct reply is…

Anchorman

On that note, any excuse to include this clip is always very welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8K1H_xcZCk

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Language