A new study has confirmed the superiority of people who use profanity over politically correct fuckbois who insist on saying things like ‘Cheese and Rice’ and ‘See You Next Tuesday’ instead of using profanity. Historically the use of profanity has been viewed as something people use when they cannot express themselves by other means, now that theory has been shown to be stuffed full of stinky hog shit and it has as many holes in it as a Calcutta whore.
Recent findings published in the Journal of Language Sciences has found that the use of profanity is indicative of a well developed vocabulary and robust lexicon of words. COCK. ASS. BALLS. SHIT. FUCK. CUNT. TWAT.
Working with the “poverty of vocabulary” concept (the assumption that people swear because they lack the intellectual capacity to find another way to express themselves) their experiment aimed to find out whether those more fluent in the art of swearing are less fluent in other forms of vocabulary.
Using students as research subjects the psychologists then asked their participants to say as many different swear words as they could think of in 60 seconds. Other non-swearing tasks such as saying as many animal names in the same space of time were also set to compare the findings.
The results found that volunteers who could produce the greatest quantity of swear words could also produce the most words in other categories. If the “poverty of vocabulary” explanation was true then the opposite should have been the case.
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As if the findings above weren’t enough they really drove their point home, basically taking a sledgehammer to the widely held belief that people who use profanity have tiny dick vocabularies:
In the journal entry, the co-authors wrote: “We cannot help but judge others on the basis of their speech. Unfortunately, when it comes to taboo language, it is a common assumption that people who swear frequently are lazy, do not have an adequate vocabulary, lack education, or simply cannot control themselves.
“The overall finding of this set of studies, that taboo fluency is positively correlated with other measures of verbal fluency, undermines the POV [Poverty of Vocabulary] view of swearing. That is, a voluminous taboo lexicon may better be considered an indicator of healthy verbal abilities rather than a cover for their deficiencies.
In the history of psychological and linguistics studies has there ever been one that sounds as badass as ‘name as many fucking curse words as your feeble mind can think of in 60 seconds’???? That, my bros, is the Holy Fucking Grail of psychological studies. Not only because it’s proof that people who use profanity are superior to the dickwag politically correct fartknockers of the world, but because it involved unfathomable amounts of profanity all in the name science. That’s just a good muthafuckin’ psychological study if you ask me.
So people who use profanity can actually express themselves better than those than who don’t, and there are more better suited to navigate life, and there fore are more well adjusted and overall better human beings (or so I say).
To read the study in full you can CLICK HERE to head on over ScienceDirect and to read my synthesis of the findings you can follow the link and head on over to the UK’s Independent.