zinfamous
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Swearing actually comes from a different part of the brain than language. So sister euginia was wrong. If you curse its actually an outburst of emotion. Its got nothing to do with words and you can actually replace common swearwords with any words and use them in the same fashion. Hence why people just use less obscene versions and they still work for them.
...and she was even more wrong.
It seems that maybe swearing is actually a sign of greater intelligence

Taboo word fluency and knowledge of slurs and general pejoratives: deconstructing the poverty-of-vocabulary myth
A folk assumption about colloquial speech is that taboo words are used because speakers cannot find better words with which to express themselves: bec…