1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, I'm welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant, uh and Jerry's over there. 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: So this is stuff you should know beep. Addition, are 5 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: we gonna beat No? I don't think so we're above that. Um. 6 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. It was a joy to read 7 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: this Tracy V. Wilson article. Tracy stuff you missed in 8 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: history class. Used to do a lot of writing, and 9 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 1: her articles are always she leaves no stone unturned. Yeah, 10 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: the V. The V stands for very good article. It 11 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: really was good. Yeah, it was very good article, very good, 12 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: so very good. Did you did you notice her images 13 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: in the article on the site? No, oh they were 14 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: all like star Trek, Firefly, Harry Potter. What later in 15 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: the article? Or was that from that other thing you 16 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: sent me? Oh that was from another thing. Okay, No, 17 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: I kind of just put it all in together, so 18 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 1: I was like, man, Tracy really went for it. A 19 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: lot of bombs. That was not Tracy. That was well. 20 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: There are a couple of other articles I sent you. 21 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: One was James Harbick wrote a good one on the 22 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: BBC and another was from Rebecca roach On a On. 23 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: Was that that swearing in other countries? Yeah, that was 24 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: really good. Um, I'm excited about this one because I 25 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: loved to curse and swear, and you folks don't know 26 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: that because we've always kept our show g rated. I know, 27 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: which is I'm glad we do that because I kind 28 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: of stand out these days among podcasts. Yeah, that's true. 29 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: Plus it's kind of like, um, it just makes it 30 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: you have to get a little more creative when you 31 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: have limitations like that. I found like working within a 32 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: structure or makes you think more rather than just like 33 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: letting it all hang out being loosey goosey lazy. Yeah, 34 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: I'm very lazy than in my regular life. Well, my 35 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: wife and I both have sailor mouth. Should we be 36 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: telling people this? I don't think it's fine, Okay, because 37 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: this is a good lesson to kids that, um, you know, 38 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: there are appropriate times to say certain things in inappropriate times, 39 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: and when you're podcasting, apparently it's inappropriate exactly at least 40 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: with us. But chuck. Um. One thing you might be 41 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: happy to hear is that a longstanding myth called the 42 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 1: poverty of vocabulary hypothesis is not held to be correct 43 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: any longer. Well, what's the myth? The hypothesis was that 44 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: people swore because they couldn't think of other words, and 45 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: that you were basically lower, lower class, poorly educated um 46 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: with a small vocabulary, which is why you cursed. And 47 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: up until fairly recently, I think it was a two 48 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 1: thousand sixteen maybe fifteen journal article that really put the 49 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,239 Speaker 1: nail in the coffin and said, nope, we tested people. 50 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: The people who came up with the most swear words 51 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: were also the ones who had the most extensive vocabulary 52 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: elsewhere too. So the idea that you're just dumb if 53 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: you if you swear a lot normally gone. Yeah, But 54 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: I mean there, it spends on how you do it. 55 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: Like sometimes you can tell someone I can't think of 56 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: a better word, you know what I mean? And sometimes 57 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: like I know some people that are just some of 58 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: the best swearers. Was most creative, intelligent swears And it's 59 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: like a music almost. I love it it is, and 60 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: it is a music. It's definitely not just words. As 61 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: we'll see, swearing is its own thing. It's kind of phenomenal. Actually, 62 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: there's a hypothesis that language came out of swears originally 63 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: that the first took took, Yeah, it took took was 64 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: basically hit his thumb with a club against the rock, 65 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: shouted something, and that became the S word as we 66 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: know it today. Well, Tracy, one of the first things 67 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: she points out was a thought super interesting and that 68 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: it's a very paradoxic, paradoxical thing, and that they are 69 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,239 Speaker 1: a taboo. But it's not a taboo that people avoid. 70 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: It's one of the few taboos like everybody, not everybody, 71 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: but many, many people in brace right, I think like 72 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: seventy eight percent of men. And we're talking for the 73 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: most of this show about sort of Western countries except 74 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: at the end. But as far as we know, and 75 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: we being like humanity, uh, swearing is universal. Here we 76 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: go se of men and fifty eight percent of women 77 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: swearing in public. It's not even in their private life. Yeah, yeah, 78 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: you know. Yeah. And apparently that's a longstanding understanding of swearing, 79 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: is that men do it more than women. And back 80 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: in the seventies there was a Berkeley linguistics researcher named 81 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:12,359 Speaker 1: Rebecca lack Off, and um, she noticed that women tended 82 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: more to use what are called minced oaths, which is 83 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: saying like fiddle sticks instead of the F word, basically 84 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: talking like ned flanders in places where men would have 85 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: cursed otherwise um. And she surmised that it was because 86 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 1: women are taught from a young age to be polite 87 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: and preferential, um, whereas men are allowed to curse and 88 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: kind of let it all hang out. But that just 89 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: put women in an awkward situation or damned if they do, 90 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: damned if they don't, uh situation. And that if they 91 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: are polite and deferential, they're treated like a fractional person um. 92 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: But if they transgress and and curse, they they've broken taboos. 93 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: And like in Western society, it's way worse for a 94 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 1: woman to curse than a man, at least in public 95 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 1: or may be even private, which is a double standard 96 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: that we need to do away with. Agreed, because it's 97 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: much like the First Amendment episode where I got all 98 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: rile up against obscenity. The idea that some words can't 99 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: be said because it's taboo just irks me to no 100 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: end as well. I don't think it's a big deal, 101 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: but I do respect that others do, and I really 102 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: do try to curb my how loud I curse in public? 103 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: Public in public's Um, I really do. I try to, like, 104 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: and this isn't just since I've had kids. Have always 105 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: just sort of tried to be aware. Maybe it was 106 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: my Baptist upbringing, but um, it's bad of a mouth. 107 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: As I have, I've always tried to just sort of 108 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: be aware of my surroundings because I never wanted to 109 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 1: be that guy that was making someone else feel bad 110 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: or whose parents had to like shuffle their kids away 111 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: from me because of the language I was using. You know. Um, 112 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: I've had a hard time with Emily. Yeah, yeah, she's 113 00:06:54,960 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: just she doesn't now she's louder and doesn't just she's 114 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: just not a She's in the moment, you know. She's 115 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,919 Speaker 1: very free spirited, and I'm always like, oh, you know 116 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: there's kids right out there, can you keep it down. 117 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: She's like, if it f that kid, if that kid, 118 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: just it. Um. But Tracy just has a lot of 119 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: little tidbits here at the beginning. I think we should 120 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: mention because they're just interesting. One is that people, and 121 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: I found this to be true when I worked in 122 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,119 Speaker 1: at a Mexican restaurant. We all learned the curse words first, 123 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: and when you learn a new language, it's one of 124 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: the first things you learn if you learn through immersion 125 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: rather than in a classroom, are colloquially colloquialisms and curse words, 126 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: although she says curse words and swear words are different. Yeah, 127 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,679 Speaker 1: so we should you want to say, with the differences, so, um, 128 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: most people use them interchangeably. But a curse word is 129 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: where you're basically hexing something. You're you're calling for someone 130 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: to be well damned, yeah, or anything good. Idea like 131 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: F this window that I can't get open, that's a 132 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: curse on that window, exactly, you're right, um. Whereas swearing 133 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: is kind of different. It's like by Odin's raiding, where 134 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: you're invoking the name of like a deity or something 135 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: religious or whatever, and you're doing that to like give 136 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: weight to your your words, your or I swear to 137 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: God as a swear and technically, if you are a 138 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: if you're a pious type, swearing to God, it's going 139 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,319 Speaker 1: to be as bad as saying F that window, if 140 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: not worse. Actually the worst is you know, if you 141 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: say g D. I remember growing up and as a 142 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 1: church kid, that was that was the worst of all 143 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: swear words. Yeah, right, you know, taking the Lord's name 144 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 1: in vain? Yeah, and that can be and most basically 145 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: all words, will you swearing curse interchangeably like any normal 146 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: human being. But um, most most swear words are all 147 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: swear words I believe can be broken down into two 148 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: category and one of them is deistic, where it involves 149 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: a like a higher authority, God, religion, something about that, right, 150 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: and um. The other is visceral, and that is basically 151 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: everything else it involves body parts, body function. It's funny 152 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: they really do break down into this. Yeah, basically everything 153 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: does it related to the body? Are related to God? 154 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: Pretty interesting? Yeah it is. And and again that seems 155 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: to be universal. But what one culture emphasizes another culture 156 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: might not. And even within the same culture over a 157 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: period of time. Uh, words can change. Emphasis on words 158 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: can change. Like, for example, in the nineteenth century, you 159 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: did not say bull as in look at that bowl 160 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: over there, yes, because it was associated with sexual virility. 161 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: So you would say, look at that brute cow over there, 162 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 1: or look at that sea docks, anything but bull because 163 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: it was a bad word at the time. And then 164 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,079 Speaker 1: now it's like someone would look at you like, what 165 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: what the Hell's the sea docks. Is that why bs 166 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: is has bull in front of it. I wonder if 167 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: it's like a particularly virulent type of of fallacy or lie, 168 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: because I don't see why else it would. That's what 169 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 1: I thought too. Tracy also says that UM, no one 170 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: really knows because cursing came before writing what the first 171 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: swear words were UM, but researchers agree. And this I 172 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: thought was super interesting is that um they called it 173 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: word magic, early forms of word magic, or where they 174 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 1: came from, which um basically means, especially in cultures that 175 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: didn't have writing, they believe that words had a lot 176 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 1: of power and you could curse something like we said, 177 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: like words could be really good or words could be 178 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: really bad, and that swearing kind of evolved out of that, right, 179 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: which is just awesome. I love it. It is um 180 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: And there is a good example of this. Apparently. Our 181 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: word for bear here in English is rooted from the 182 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: Germanic word for brown, and it was based on the 183 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: pagan Germanic taboo against saying the name of a wild 184 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: animal because it might make that wild animal appear because 185 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: of word magic. So that's why we say bear today. 186 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: So interesting because something like ursa would have been. It 187 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: would have made the bear appear and killed everybody, and 188 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: it would have been your fault because you didn't say brown. 189 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 1: He said, ursa. Did you ever hear the for unlawful 190 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: carnal knowledge acronym? That's completely not true. Um that the 191 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: F word is old, very old recording in English since 192 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: the fifteenth century, and they found some roots of it 193 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: back in Middle Dutch f o k k e n 194 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 1: was to thrust or copulate, Norwegian f u k k 195 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: a was copulate, and in Swedish f o uk meant 196 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: penis uh. And apparently even though it was around, it 197 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: wasn't really used in common speech though much It was 198 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: like a word in English. Yeah, but it wasn't really 199 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: used as a curse word until much later on. Yeah, 200 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: like the I think the sixteenth centuries when it first 201 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: appears in writing, and even then it seemed kind of casual. Yeah, 202 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: just a casual. I've got another one. You're ready. Zounds. 203 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: You know that word, uh, zounds? I think like Shaggy 204 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: used to say it a lot, He said, zinks. Yeah, 205 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: somebody said zounds Encyclopedia Brown. I don't know, so zounds 206 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: sounds like that yeah. Is Um, it's related to God's wounds. 207 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: So you're saying God's wounds, Yeah, invoking a deity, So 208 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,959 Speaker 1: that would be a deistic curse. Wow. I can't wait 209 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: till the end when we go around the world. Some 210 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: of those are really funny. Um, should we take a break, Yeah, 211 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: all right, we'll take a break and talk a little 212 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: bit about why people swears skulk Alright, So this makes 213 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:33,959 Speaker 1: a lot of sense. There's a lot of there's a 214 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: line of thought that says that swearing eventually it comes 215 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: to take the place of crying. Yeah. I thought this 216 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: was there's a lot of anecdotal evidence. It makes perfect sense, 217 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: makes total complete sense. Yeah, because when you're a kid, 218 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 1: you cry about things, and then when you grow up 219 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: here in the West, you're, for some reason taught not 220 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: to cry anymore, especially little boys, which is totally us, 221 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: says Rosie Greer. Yeah, I cry all the time. Uh, 222 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: And so that swearing becomes a what they call an 223 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: instinctive response for if you're upset, or if you're afraid, 224 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: or if something bad happens, if you're frustrated, and that 225 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: just kind of takes the place of crying. Yeah, which 226 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: again both makes it tremendous. Do you swear while you're crying? 227 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: Because no, I don't do the ugly cry. We should 228 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: probably get a judgment call from our legendary producer Jerry 229 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: about is it okay for us to say if it 230 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: in place of actual bad words here Jerry says, yes, 231 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: we need a ding ding ding. So Um, that makes 232 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: total sense to me that you learned to swear. And 233 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: one of the reasons why it makes total sense to 234 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: me is that swearing is a way of letting off 235 00:14:54,680 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: pressure valve suddenly and quickly, almost involuntarily, right, um. And 236 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: if you can do it out of anger, you can 237 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 1: do it out of frustration, you can do it out 238 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: of shock, surprise, pain, um. And yeah, and and at 239 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: least in the context of our society, it would be 240 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: weird if you cried in all those situations of an 241 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: adult when you can get it over with just by 242 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: saying shouting the S word or the F word or 243 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: something like that. You know. Um. And Actually, there's a 244 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: linguist named Jeoffrey Nowmberg. I probably screwed up his name, 245 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: but he had this great description of swear words. He said, 246 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: swear words don't describe your feelings. They manifest them, which 247 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: is absolutely true. I've seen it put as like a 248 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: quick verbal hand grenade. Um. It encapsulates a feeling and 249 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: in in like a really potent condensed form. It's true. 250 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: So bam um. Another really cool um thing that that 251 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: Tracy wrote about was that um they do a lot too. 252 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: They can establish a group identity, They can make you 253 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: feel like a part of a group. UM. They can 254 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: express like intimacy or trust with someone. They aren't just 255 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: regular words beyond shock value and humor, which are all valid, 256 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: but beyond camouflaging your fears which is valid. They really 257 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 1: can Like I remember, I remember in our one of 258 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: our first editorial meetings and how stuff works years ago 259 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: when our former boss who gave us the the charge 260 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: to do stuff you should know, dropped f bombs in 261 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: the meeting. And and this was the first kind of 262 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: like my stupid chicken killer software job that I had. 263 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: I was like a frat house, so that didn't count. 264 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: Like the language and there was terrible, But this was 265 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: my first like real job where yeah, where I thought like, 266 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: all right, I'm in my first like meeting and he 267 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: starts dropping f bombs and I immediately felt a kinship 268 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, this guy is doing something. 269 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: He's laying this out to the room, and that means something. 270 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't a casual thing. If you drop 271 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: an F bomb in a meeting like that, you're you're 272 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: telling people something. Yeah, like it's okay to use that 273 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: language here, or this is what kind of person I am. 274 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: It really gives off a lot of social cues. Yeah, 275 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: you know, I've always loved them for it. It really does. 276 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: It's also um it also kind of presents the person 277 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 1: of higher authority on on your level. You know, it 278 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: can turn people off, though I did think about that, like, man, 279 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 1: I wonder if there's people in here that are offended 280 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: by this? Well it is, there's a real um. I mean, 281 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: foul language can be offensive, and the this really great 282 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: article by Rebecca roach On Aon basically posits that it's 283 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 1: offensive because when you are using foul language in front 284 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 1: of somebody, you know that there's a chance that it's 285 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: going to offend them, and you're doing it anyway. So basically, 286 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: purposefully creating an atmosphere where someone probably will be offended 287 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: is the whole reason why bad language is offensive. Yeah, 288 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: it's like it's agreed upon between the two parties, Like, 289 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: there are certain words that if I use in this conversation, 290 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:14,160 Speaker 1: you might get offended or you might feel more included. Right, 291 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: And because I know that you might get offended, and 292 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 1: I'm doing it anyway, I'm saying to heck with your offense, 293 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: which again creates the offensiveness in the first place. It's 294 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: oh wow, what could you It's a dirty word. Um, well, 295 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: I guess we should talk about social response a little bit, 296 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: because that's kind of where we're headed. But um it 297 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: didn't like obscenities and dirty words weren't even really looked 298 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: it that way until after the eighteen hundreds. Now, there 299 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: were taboo words for sure, but they weren't considered dirty. 300 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 1: It was just taboo like don't invoke Odin's raven right. 301 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: But like, the word profanity didn't come around till the 302 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 1: nineteenth century, which is really interesting. Yeah, you know, and 303 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 1: originally profan the and blasphemy meant the same thing. They 304 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: both had to do with basically insulting the sacred um, 305 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: and then over time they started to diverge. Blasphemy for 306 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: me still means the same thing, whereas profanity now is 307 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: a general catch all for for what we would call 308 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,400 Speaker 1: swear words or curse words are dirty words. Right, Even 309 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 1: though there's a in all cultures, there's a definite hierarchy. Yeah, 310 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,199 Speaker 1: of you know, if your kid says d A M N, 311 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: not the biggest deal, No, just maybe to bed without 312 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 1: dinner for a few nights. And if your kid is 313 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 1: dropping F bombs, you know that it ranks or worse. 314 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: You know, some people think the F bomb is the 315 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:48,679 Speaker 1: worst thing you can do. That there, Yes, that's just 316 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:53,640 Speaker 1: playing wrong. I'm sorry, at least in this day and age. Yes, Um, 317 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 1: that hierarchy you talk about seems to fall into a 318 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 1: couple of categories. Even though have a hierarchy is universal, 319 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: what is at the top of the hierarchy is not. UM. 320 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: One of the things that frequently is found at the 321 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: top of the hierarchy around the world is UM, moms 322 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: your mother. There are plenty of very different cultures around 323 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: the world, UM where insulting your mother, particularly either a 324 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: sexual act with your mother or UM bringing up your 325 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: person's mother's genitalia UM is the is the worst. It's 326 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,479 Speaker 1: the worst of the worst. Oh yeah, I remember, like 327 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: I said in college, when I worked at that Mexican place. 328 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: We learned all the course words first, and the guys 329 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: in the kitchen. I was like, man, you guys talk 330 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: about each other's mom more than anything I've ever heard 331 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: in my life. It was remarkable, and that must be 332 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: And I guess in Um, I guess, is Spain listed 333 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: or Spanish languages? Well, it's a it's Latin languages, Latin 334 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: based languages, so Spanish would definitely fall under that togory. Yeah, 335 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: but also um, I believe Mandarin, um Arabic, some Arabic 336 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 1: languages just languages around like like really disparate cultures have 337 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 1: said like leave the moms out of this. Well it 338 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: was also funny too because she followed up with um. 339 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 1: Sometimes in Bosnia it's uh, your father, it can be 340 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:28,360 Speaker 1: a really big insult or grandfather, um in Albanian your family, Turkish, 341 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 1: your extended family. And finally Mandarin, which is your ancestors 342 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: to the eighteenth generation. There it is man that is 343 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: the best swear on the planet. F your ancestors to 344 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 1: the eighteenth generation. I wish I knew how to pronounce this. 345 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: It's just that's as good as it gets. Cow needs 346 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: a zong sheba dae oh you know we this is 347 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: available in China. Yeah good, I'm gonna learn how to 348 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 1: say that, like for real, little kids in China listen 349 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: to this. The whole classics point. I need to learn 350 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 1: how to say very sorry. Then gasping is universal too. 351 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,439 Speaker 1: But speaking of swearing at work, um, supposedly swearing at 352 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: work makes up three of the conversation. That's what it said. 353 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 1: That sounds low to me. I saw a two thousand 354 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: and sixteen study that found that women curse more than 355 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: men at work. More women admit to cursing at work 356 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:33,120 Speaker 1: then man, but frequency wise, men curse more. So if 357 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: the average man who curses at work is placed beside 358 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: the average woman who curses at work, the man's gonna 359 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: curse more frequently. But if you fill the room with 360 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: the women who curse at work and the man who 361 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 1: curse at work, there'll be more women. Does that for explained? 362 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:54,120 Speaker 1: Really confused? Well? And then apparently among millennials, sixty six 363 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 1: percent of millennials say they curse at work, and then 364 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: of baby boomers curse at work, which if you put 365 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 1: that together, comes out to be a hundred and twenty. 366 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: So that makes like zero sense. If you fooled me. Um, 367 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: if you're talking about the law. Depending on where you are, 368 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: there may be some arcane laws on the books that 369 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: prevent you from cursing in public. Um, but it's definitely 370 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,159 Speaker 1: you know, we did one on free speech recently. It 371 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: definitely does not qualify as protected speech. It depends what 372 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: can Yeah, alright, So like if you're just walking down 373 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 1: the street and you say, if you pig to a cop, 374 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: you're gonna get arrested, but there's a pretty good chance 375 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: that your case is going to get ultimately thrown out 376 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 1: if you, Um, if you were in Pennsylvania, you are 377 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 1: going to well, depending on the town, and you curse 378 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: in public, you say, f the Steelers, Oh man, you 379 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 1: made you you you should count your lucky stars if 380 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 1: you make it safely to jail, unless you're in Philadelphia, 381 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 1: well there you go. Um. Apparently in Pennsylvania they were 382 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 1: arresting people left and right for um, well citing them, 383 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,199 Speaker 1: giving them citations for cursing in public, and UM, it 384 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 1: finally got to the point where the A c L 385 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 1: You got involved and said, what are you doing. You 386 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 1: can't do this. This is protected speech. This is curse 387 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: in public, and it's a. It's a gray area. Actually, 388 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,199 Speaker 1: like states, there are states, like you said, that have 389 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: some laws on the books, and apparently one of them 390 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: is Pennsylvania, and they were enforcing it, and I don't 391 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: know if they still are or not, but pretty recently 392 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,439 Speaker 1: they were, um, they were giving people citations for it. 393 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 1: And in Michigan they had a law overturned as recently 394 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: as two thousand two where it was illegal to cuss 395 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 1: in front of women and children. And some guy was 396 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,719 Speaker 1: canoeing down the Rifle River. His canoe was overturned. He 397 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: was in the water cursing up storm and there were women, children, 398 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:05,919 Speaker 1: elderly there. He he was arrested and um taken to jail, 399 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,680 Speaker 1: and the Michigan Court of Appeals said, no, this is 400 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: a hundred year old law. While and the guy overturned 401 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: his cannete like give him a break, right exactly, give 402 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 1: the guy a break, and he um he got off. 403 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: His case was thrown out and they said, we're this 404 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: law of null and void. By the way, so there 405 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: is speech protection and it is taken to extend to 406 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: the state level. But again it's a gray area because 407 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,439 Speaker 1: if you did that on TV, you could certainly be 408 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 1: fined and that would be upheld because we've long agreed 409 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:41,399 Speaker 1: that there are certain situations where you shouldn't curse because 410 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: kids might hear it. But what's the difference of doing 411 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: it on TV and doing it in front of a kid? 412 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 1: Only the courts can say, well, yeah, and that's an 413 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,439 Speaker 1: FCC thing. And there are certain words, like you know 414 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: George Carlin's famous words you can't say on television. Um, 415 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: but those are rules more than laws, aren't they Or 416 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: I guess yeah, I guess they are rules, rules and regulations. Yeah, 417 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: but but they are upheld. Yeah. But like private organizations 418 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: and like if you're in a store or a movie 419 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: theater or at work, like they can they can prevent 420 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: you from doing that stuff. Can you can be asked 421 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: to leave? Um, you can be asked off a plane, 422 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 1: you know stuff hopefully while it's on the ground. Yeah. Yeah, 423 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: if you're if you're a company, you can. Yeah. It's 424 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: like in the mall episode, I think we talked about 425 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,640 Speaker 1: where First Amendment protection doesn't extend to private area. Yeah, 426 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: you can have a policy, um yeah, and it can 427 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: be like some people can consider that a hostile work environment. Yeah, 428 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: if you have you know, a real potty mouth boss. 429 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: It makes everybody feel uncomfortable because cursing can go. You know, 430 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: it's one thing to say you know bs or F this, 431 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: but if you like get really creative with your curse words. Well, 432 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: Plus there's a difference between F this and F you, 433 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: especially coming from a boss. Sure, so yeah, you can 434 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: switch it really is. It's the best. Um, all right, 435 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: should we take a break and talk about the brain? 436 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: Yess sk sk So we're back, ready to talk about 437 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,360 Speaker 1: the brain. Got the top of my skull removed and 438 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: Chuck has finger in the ventral dorsal interior postulate. If 439 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, I thought this is where it got 440 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: really interesting. Yeah, because it supports all that anecdotal evidence, 441 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 1: all of it. Yeah, alright, so the parts of the brain, um, 442 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: the cerebral cortex. I guess we should go through all this. Huh. 443 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: I was gonna break it down to the big line 444 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: at the end, but we'll go through it all. Yeah, 445 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: you gotta build it up where showman. If anything that 446 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 1: the cerebral cortex has pre motor and motor areas. They 447 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: control the speech and writing. It's kind of like the 448 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 1: higher function. And then we talked before about Wernike's area. Um, jeez, 449 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: we talked about that a bunch. I feel like, well, 450 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: it's pretty interesting it is, uh. And they recognize and 451 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: process words spoken words, and then you have your prefrontal cortex, 452 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: which like helps regulate your what's your social behaviors and stuff. 453 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: It's a higher, higher function. It's all these things. Was 454 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 1: about to say, you're working together, but they're kind of 455 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: not when it comes to cursing, right when it comes 456 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: to language, they're all working together, but like we said before, 457 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: swears there something different. They're separate, yes, and scientifically in 458 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: fact they are. Yeah. So they they involve different parts 459 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 1: of the brain than language processing. UM. The limbic system, 460 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: which is part of your reward system or the basis 461 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,959 Speaker 1: of your word system, but also has to do with 462 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: housing memory UM, has to do with regulating emotion, basic behaviors. UM. 463 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: And apparently they think that in primates and some animals, 464 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: vocalization is based in the Olympic system, just like like 465 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: that thing that Tim Allen does that would be limbic 466 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: system based, weird, like oinking bark he does. I've literally 467 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: never seen anything, Tim Allen. I'm not about to do it. 468 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to go look it up on YouTube. Uh. 469 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: And then the basil ganglia, which is motor motor function, yeah, 470 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 1: and impulse control. Those two things which have basically nothing 471 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: to do with language processing, higher processing and humans are 472 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 1: what governed swear words. Yeah, Like Tracy says that they're 473 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: the scientists think that it all takes place in those 474 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 1: lower regions. It's all emotion and instinct, and that the 475 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: brain doesn't even process a swear word like a word 476 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: like as what are they called phone ms phonemes, Yeah, phonemes, 477 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: Like the parts that make up the word. The curse 478 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 1: word is just the word as a whole as far 479 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 1: as the brain is concerned. Like when you hear the 480 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: word articulation, there's a part of your brain in the 481 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 1: left hemisphere. The region is going to work taking articulation 482 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 1: emphasis you put on it, putting it together, running it 483 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: against your memory banks or context or whatever, and saying, oh, 484 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: I know what you just said. But if somebody shouts 485 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: the S word, those parts of your brain are not 486 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: springing into action. It's the parts of your brain that 487 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: are involved in experiencing, in recognizing emotions, The very very 488 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: ancient parts of your brain that are involved in which 489 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 1: gives credence to that hypothesis that language evolved out of expletives. Well, 490 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 1: and also in that one article you sent the theory 491 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: that it's not even a theory, just kind of the 492 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: thought that a curse word isn't even a word so 493 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: much as it is like a yell yes, I mean, 494 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: it could might as well just be yeah. It's just 495 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: you've got four letters, and if you think about it, 496 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: it makes uttering complete sense, like even the worst of 497 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: the worst, you know, where you're involving somebody's mom in 498 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: the worst possible way. You're when somebody says that, even 499 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: when they're especially I should say, when they're saying it 500 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: to insult you specifically, your brain doesn't dial up that image. 501 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,479 Speaker 1: It doesn't have to know. You're not thinking about the 502 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: actual meaning of the word. You're responding to the emotional 503 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: punch and the gut you just took from that word, 504 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 1: Like you know what that word means. I mean, the 505 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: thing they mean on a on a very emotional level, 506 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: like you have it stored away in that sense. Yeah, 507 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 1: because most times curse words almost always there aren't to 508 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 1: be taken literally, right like when uh in the one 509 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: who was the guy who wrote that one, Uh, that 510 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: that you sent from the BBC James Harbick. Yeah, like 511 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: talking about the F word, they're like ten different ways 512 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: you can use it. Well, that was Stephen Pinker. He 513 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: was refrained, Okay, yeah, and none of them are you 514 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: should take literally, and no one does take them literally. 515 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: You just know what it means if you say it 516 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: or F or F you you're not literally saying engage 517 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: in sex with this thing, you know. Yeah, and you 518 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,239 Speaker 1: think the person was a weirdo who just topped you 519 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 1: if they did at your command. Well, which is another 520 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 1: reason why we let people that are just learning to 521 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 1: speak English off the hook when they say curse words, 522 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: because they don't understand the difference between the literal meaning 523 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 1: and the expression, right, So no offense is intended, right, right, 524 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: so that social contract is not there yet exactly. It's 525 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: just hilarious when they do it accidentally. It really is. Yeah, 526 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: was it? What was it? Stripes to speak English? You know. 527 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 1: Framus is teaching them very good stuff. Uh. And so 528 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 1: they've done f m r I studies to that show 529 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: that functional magnetic resonance imaging tests uh, to show that 530 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: higher and lower parts of the brain can struggle with 531 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: each other when they swear. And apparently the people who 532 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: really pride themselves and being super educated and very literate people, uh, 533 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: they respond to slang and illiterate quote, illiterate phrases the 534 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: same as they do swear words. And this one is 535 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: weird to me. Um. They've done studies where you identify 536 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 1: the color or word is written in, not the word, 537 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: but the color, and the swear word distracts them from 538 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: the color of that word. This's is crazy. They literally 539 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: exist in their own space. Yeah, they are their own 540 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: thing for sure, you know. Yeah, and you remember them 541 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 1: supposedly you remember swear words four times better than other words. 542 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 1: It's nuts. But what makes it, I think what's super 543 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: interesting to me is that there's their universal and there's distinctions, 544 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 1: but they're also you know, you can divide most things 545 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: in most swear words into just a couple of different 546 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: categories across the board, you know, but there they're not 547 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: given thought, but they're based on things that you learn. 548 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: So for example, chuck starting to go around the world, 549 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:16,800 Speaker 1: shall we alright, are we there yet? So? In uh 550 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 1: French Quebec, it's an extraordinarily catholic Um society and basically 551 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: all of their swear words have to do with the 552 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:31,920 Speaker 1: Catholic Mass, like the chalice, the tabernacle, the host um, 553 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 1: the these literally these words like you say tabernacle and 554 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,840 Speaker 1: it's that's bad man, that's a really bad, bad word. 555 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: And it has to do with the idea that you're 556 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: bringing the sacred into um. You're basically blaspheming and it's 557 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,960 Speaker 1: a it's a big time taboo. But the idea that 558 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 1: that's a learned like you have to, like you don't 559 00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 1: look at a a tabernacle and a true church as 560 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 1: a kid without being you know, the first time you 561 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,400 Speaker 1: were walking to a church and say that's the holiest 562 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: thing there is. I understand everything there is to know 563 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 1: about it so much so that I can break a 564 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 1: taboo by saying that word. You have to learn that. 565 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,120 Speaker 1: But the idea that that when you do learn it, 566 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,880 Speaker 1: it's stored as an emotion in your brain, as a 567 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: motor function, rather than as a word that your higher 568 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:29,920 Speaker 1: cognition refers to or brings forth. It's just astounding to me. 569 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 1: It is it's like a parallel process to learning language. Absolutely, um, 570 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: there are languages where uh like it's different in a 571 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 1: lot of countries, but it's also the same. Like when 572 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 1: you talk about like the feces. Uh, there are many 573 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,800 Speaker 1: different languages that use the word feces there whatever word 574 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: for it as a swear word. Um, including English of course, UM, French, German, um, 575 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:04,719 Speaker 1: they all have Albania, They all have words for feces 576 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:08,279 Speaker 1: that are curse words. But then it's not arbitrary. I 577 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,640 Speaker 1: guess it just spends on how it, you know, came 578 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,239 Speaker 1: to be in that country. But in Sweden, which is 579 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 1: you know, in that neighborhood, Uh, you can say skit 580 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,239 Speaker 1: when you're annoyed, but it doesn't count as a curse word, right, 581 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:22,239 Speaker 1: like you could They said you could say to run 582 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,360 Speaker 1: a grandmother. Yeah, so so it's a curse word. But 583 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 1: the the importance, the emphasis that of a taboo that 584 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 1: it breaks depends on the culture. Yeah, or like another 585 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:40,399 Speaker 1: kind of like in Polish they'll use cholera, and other 586 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 1: countries use types of disease like canker in in the Dutch. Yeah, 587 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,520 Speaker 1: isn't that crazy, Yeah, the canker meaning cancer, So you 588 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,719 Speaker 1: you are basically wishing cancer on somebody, which is pretty awful. Yeah, 589 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,080 Speaker 1: that would be a curse that's not done here, But 590 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,280 Speaker 1: if you did do it in in you know, normal 591 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,880 Speaker 1: discussion or even an argument here in the West, there'd 592 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 1: be like a record scratch, a needle scratching off a record, 593 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,239 Speaker 1: be like, what did you just say? That was the 594 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,160 Speaker 1: worst thing that's been said to me in months? But 595 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,680 Speaker 1: you just have a word for it. Yeah, I never 596 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,279 Speaker 1: really thought about that. That That would be terrible thing to 597 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,760 Speaker 1: say it if you said that just in a sentence 598 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,520 Speaker 1: to someone in English, especially if you were like jabbing 599 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,759 Speaker 1: your finger in their chest while you're saying it. You know, 600 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,040 Speaker 1: that's right. I know. We have a lot of listeners 601 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 1: in Sweden, uh, Swedish um people apparently the same with 602 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,480 Speaker 1: finn Finland and uh, Norway and Denmark. They put a 603 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,440 Speaker 1: lot of emphasis on the devil. Oh yeah, so like 604 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:42,240 Speaker 1: some of their worst swear words are um based on satan, 605 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:47,319 Speaker 1: hell um, the devil, that kind of thing. Yeah, so 606 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,080 Speaker 1: you don't want to you don't want to bring that up, 607 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,600 Speaker 1: or else you might offend your hosts in Sweden. Prostitution 608 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:59,120 Speaker 1: apparently a lot of cultures. Uh. And this this theory 609 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 1: makes sense. Process it's defire wife's exclusivity in a man's ownership, 610 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,160 Speaker 1: which is why a lot of words people will use 611 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 1: for prostitute can be a swear word against somebody. Yeah, 612 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:14,359 Speaker 1: and apparently cultures that where bringing someone's mother into it 613 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,839 Speaker 1: is is the is the top of the hierarchy will 614 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:22,600 Speaker 1: also have um words for prostitutes, like plenty of words 615 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,359 Speaker 1: for prostitutes, and those will be extremely bad words as well. 616 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,800 Speaker 1: So it's like those things kind of go hand in hand, yeah, 617 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,400 Speaker 1: which from what I've seen, has to do with the 618 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:36,239 Speaker 1: patriarchy creating the moral hierarchy, right, because it's such a 619 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,920 Speaker 1: male view of things, like you're my mom, so you're 620 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,399 Speaker 1: the most sacred thing around, and you're a prostitute, which 621 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,719 Speaker 1: means I can't control you. So invoking those things are 622 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,000 Speaker 1: the two worst things you can talk about. And then 623 00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 1: our last step to me chuck in Japan, yes, bacca 624 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 1: Bacca means basically idiot, but it you don't call people that, 625 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,280 Speaker 1: it's a really bad word, which I think is so sweet. 626 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:07,840 Speaker 1: I love that country. Idiot that's bad, yeah, and I 627 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,280 Speaker 1: think about how much how often we call people idiots 628 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,600 Speaker 1: here in the US. Yeah, but that's bad though. I 629 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,719 Speaker 1: remember my mom team like, don't don't say that. Word. 630 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,239 Speaker 1: Oh she was right. Yeah. Still she's not even Japanese, 631 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,640 Speaker 1: she's some Tennessee a little Japanese in it, maybe so 632 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,480 Speaker 1: Japanese streak. UM. So I guess we will finish up 633 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 1: here with a little bit on um. What can happen 634 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,480 Speaker 1: when your brain is damaged. And we've talked about a 635 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 1: little bit of this stuff before, but there's some pretty 636 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:39,359 Speaker 1: interesting things uh. In terms of brain injury UM. Something 637 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,759 Speaker 1: called aphasia UH is a condition where you can lose 638 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,920 Speaker 1: your ability to speak or pronounce words because of disease 639 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: or brain damage. But UM A phase A, PHASEX have 640 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,400 Speaker 1: an interesting thing. They can return to their ability of 641 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,680 Speaker 1: automatic speech, which is just like saying things like um 642 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,200 Speaker 1: and uh uh. But the other thing that comes back, 643 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:06,160 Speaker 1: or swear words, which ties all back into the thing, 644 00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,640 Speaker 1: is they exist as their own in their own category, 645 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,319 Speaker 1: almost like non speech exactly. So that's one of the 646 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,600 Speaker 1: first things that can come back um or never go away, 647 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,359 Speaker 1: yeah or never go away. And when they um, their 648 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: ability pronounced words can evolve while they're recovering, but the 649 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,560 Speaker 1: swear words stay the same. Right Like apparently you can 650 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:31,080 Speaker 1: have a hemispherictomy on the left of the left lobe 651 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:35,120 Speaker 1: where a substantial part of the left lobe goes away 652 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,000 Speaker 1: and you can't talk any longer, but you can say, yes, 653 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:44,879 Speaker 1: we're just fine. That must be startling, I'm sure you know. Yeah. Uh, 654 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,120 Speaker 1: and we did. We did a great episode on Tourette 655 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:52,320 Speaker 1: syndrome quite a while back, and we talked about corporalia 656 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,520 Speaker 1: and that is um. I think a lot of people 657 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,319 Speaker 1: have this image of someone with turette, you know, just 658 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:02,200 Speaker 1: constantly screaming swear words. And it's actually a very small 659 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,400 Speaker 1: number and it's that's actually called copper laia, not turette, 660 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,520 Speaker 1: and um, a very small number of people with GTS 661 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:13,160 Speaker 1: exhibit copper lawya, right, very very very small. Yeah, and 662 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,359 Speaker 1: it's I think it even I think you even grow 663 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,600 Speaker 1: out of it in most cases too. Right. Apparently younger 664 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,359 Speaker 1: males are the ones who are more likely to have 665 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,160 Speaker 1: that as a tick with Tourette syndrome. But it also 666 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,400 Speaker 1: makes sense in that um swearing can be viewed as 667 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:32,799 Speaker 1: a motor function with a motion attached, right, Yeah, And 668 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,320 Speaker 1: a tick is a has to do with the motor function, 669 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,040 Speaker 1: whether it's your head twitching or shouting the S word 670 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,879 Speaker 1: a few times. Yeah, still a tick, um My last 671 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:47,239 Speaker 1: thing here is I think Pinker, I think it was 672 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,719 Speaker 1: really interesting and that he noted that swear words were 673 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:55,719 Speaker 1: often most often just very uh just the sound itself, 674 00:41:56,160 --> 00:42:01,080 Speaker 1: you know, being real, just harsh, and that that contributes 675 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,719 Speaker 1: a lot to their function, like when you get hurt 676 00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,080 Speaker 1: or when you're just trying to exclaim something loudly, like 677 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,480 Speaker 1: the F word, it's as that very sharp k at 678 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:14,080 Speaker 1: the end um. And if you expressed anger using gentler 679 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:20,520 Speaker 1: sounds like he says wiffy and slush, it's just he 680 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,160 Speaker 1: compares it. What do you say, It's like slamming a 681 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,839 Speaker 1: door fitted with a compressed air hinge. It's just not 682 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,800 Speaker 1: the same thing, right, There's something about those sharp quick 683 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,239 Speaker 1: words ends and kay's and teas, you know that our 684 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:36,760 Speaker 1: staccato that just sort of provide that visceral you know release. Yeah, 685 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,239 Speaker 1: I think yeah that was Rebecca Roach who use the 686 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:46,399 Speaker 1: analogy with the hydraulic which is perfect its wify door. Yeah. Um, 687 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:51,920 Speaker 1: But but we should finish on Pinker's um seven functions 688 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,480 Speaker 1: of swearing. All right? What are they? They? So? I 689 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,799 Speaker 1: swear word? No, I'm sorry. Five functions that we could 690 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:04,280 Speaker 1: make up another two swear words. They can be used descriptively. Uh, 691 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,680 Speaker 1: I can't give an example of that one. Idiomatically. Okay, 692 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:14,319 Speaker 1: it's ft up abusively f you Yeah, emphatically, this is 693 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:20,839 Speaker 1: an amazing yeah. Um and cathartically, which is f right, 694 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:27,000 Speaker 1: which it makes swears pretty interesting things. Yeah, and um, 695 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:28,719 Speaker 1: I mean Tracy puts some tips in there for when 696 00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:33,360 Speaker 1: you have children on how to regulate that and explain things. 697 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,680 Speaker 1: But um, you know, just a parent the way you 698 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,000 Speaker 1: want a parent apparently though you're not supposed to laugh, 699 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:43,359 Speaker 1: that's impossible. Yeah, laugh and clap and pat him on 700 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,960 Speaker 1: the head. Yeah, by my toy. Yeah, my kids at 701 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,200 Speaker 1: the age where she repeats everything. And I hurt myself 702 00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,360 Speaker 1: the other day and let out an F bomb and 703 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,080 Speaker 1: she said it right after me. And there's nothing funnier. Wow. 704 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,040 Speaker 1: Do you have it on tape? No? Um, But she 705 00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,440 Speaker 1: does say the word fox, the animal fox. Um, she 706 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,759 Speaker 1: says that as the other word, and we do have 707 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,680 Speaker 1: that on tape. It's funny. I'd like to see that. Yeah, 708 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,120 Speaker 1: I'll show it to you. It's um, it's good. And 709 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,560 Speaker 1: you know, it's just a reality that we curse in 710 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,600 Speaker 1: my household. And you know, my kids probably gonna be 711 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,080 Speaker 1: one of those kids that curses earlier than other kids. 712 00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,000 Speaker 1: But I'm hoping to kind of cross that bridge and 713 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,520 Speaker 1: be like, hey, listen, can't say these things in school. 714 00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,520 Speaker 1: You can't say him in front of teachers. I remember 715 00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:30,719 Speaker 1: when a teacher would curse, how like no shocking that was. 716 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:34,560 Speaker 1: I don't think I ever experienced no like the teacher 717 00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,560 Speaker 1: on a bad day that the class is just pushed 718 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:38,359 Speaker 1: and they would just break down and scream a curse 719 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,160 Speaker 1: word that never happened. Oh man, I had. It happened 720 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,080 Speaker 1: a couple of times, and it is talk about like 721 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,680 Speaker 1: the social contract. Nothing will make a bunch of kids 722 00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,279 Speaker 1: like straighten up faster than hearing you. They're just like, 723 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:53,000 Speaker 1: oh man, like Mrs So and so, has we've pushed 724 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,800 Speaker 1: her too far? Or when a kid curses at a teacher, 725 00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,800 Speaker 1: there was also that like oh boy, yeah, that's huge, 726 00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:03,000 Speaker 1: like trouble. Yeah. So yeah, I'm hoping to teach my 727 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,920 Speaker 1: daughter it's too pick and choose. Yeah, maybe she'll grow 728 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,440 Speaker 1: up to be like Red Fox make money off of 729 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,960 Speaker 1: the cursing. Maybe so or Sarah Silverman, Yeah, who's like 730 00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,040 Speaker 1: the modern Red Fox. Well, she definitely has made a 731 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:21,080 Speaker 1: career out of breaking taboos with language for shock shock value. 732 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,799 Speaker 1: She's great. Yep yea. So it's Red Fox so too 733 00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:28,399 Speaker 1: r I p uh red Fox not Sarah Silverman's. If 734 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,160 Speaker 1: you want to know more about Red Fox there Silverman swearing. 735 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,480 Speaker 1: Any of that stuff. You can type those words in 736 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,640 Speaker 1: the search part how stuff works dot com. And since 737 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:40,799 Speaker 1: I said search parts, time for listener mail. I'm gonna 738 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,320 Speaker 1: call this notable Canadian filibuster. You folks may have noticed 739 00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:48,560 Speaker 1: we had a Saturday episode on filibusters. And that's a 740 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,760 Speaker 1: new thing we're doing called s Y s K selects, 741 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,000 Speaker 1: where we we republished a Saturday episode that we think 742 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,120 Speaker 1: was great or relevant. Um, in case you missed it. 743 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:03,640 Speaker 1: And um, thanks for the support on those apparently support 744 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:09,640 Speaker 1: we mean thanks for listening, right yeah, yeah, they're still free. Um. 745 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:11,919 Speaker 1: So Blake listened to the filibuster one and he wrote 746 00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,960 Speaker 1: in about a Canadian filibuster. Hey, guys quite enjoyed the 747 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,040 Speaker 1: episode about filibusters. Although I've worked for several years at 748 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:21,040 Speaker 1: various legislatures throughout Canada can tell you that filibustering is 749 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,760 Speaker 1: not unique to the U. S. Senate. My favorite example 750 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,240 Speaker 1: of the filibuster took place in the Canadian Senate. Parliamentary 751 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,760 Speaker 1: proceedings in Canada are recorded and published verbatim and hands 752 00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,160 Speaker 1: aard uh. Canada being a bilingual country means that the 753 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,280 Speaker 1: hands are hands. Art is available in both English and French, 754 00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,479 Speaker 1: meaning that staff not only have to transcribe everything said, 755 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,600 Speaker 1: but translators also need to translate English speeches into French 756 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:48,120 Speaker 1: and vice versa for official publicity. I'm sorry, publicly available record. 757 00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,680 Speaker 1: Why is this topical because during one particularly contentious filibuster 758 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:56,240 Speaker 1: believe related to trade agreement in the late eight nineteen eighties, 759 00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,760 Speaker 1: one senator stood and read the entirety of his autobiography 760 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,520 Speaker 1: into the record. As you can expect, this took quite 761 00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,880 Speaker 1: a bit of time. That not only did it delay 762 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,560 Speaker 1: passage of the bill, the common mythology to the senator 763 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,400 Speaker 1: also to this in order to get a free, professional 764 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:15,680 Speaker 1: quality translation of his autobiography, which was subsequently published in French. Wow, 765 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,360 Speaker 1: that's from Blake Evans. That's that's a good one, Blake. 766 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,000 Speaker 1: Thank you for the Canadian history lesson. We don't get 767 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,400 Speaker 1: enough of that down here. Um. I have one. I 768 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,319 Speaker 1: have a call out for Canadians. I've always just made 769 00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,400 Speaker 1: fun of it as fake Thanksgiving, but I realized I 770 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:35,160 Speaker 1: never have figured out why Thanksgiving as celebrated a month 771 00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:39,240 Speaker 1: or so early, well early compared to the US in Canada, 772 00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,480 Speaker 1: so let us know exactly that's a different way of 773 00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,560 Speaker 1: looking at it. 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