Monday, December 14, 2015

People Good At Swearing Have This Major Advantage - larger vocabulary

I knew a guy with aphasia from a stroke bowling group who could swear up a storm. I don't think this finding necessarily applies to him.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/12/people-good-at-swearing-have-this-major-advantage.php?
People who know more swear words also have stronger verbal abilities, a new study finds.
Knowing how to swear, then, is not a sign of a poor vocabulary — in fact it signals a better vocabulary.
The study tested how many different swear words people could think of in 60 seconds.
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One caveat: this study does not test or suggest that using lots of swear words is a sign of a larger vocabulary.
It only tested (and found) that knowing them is linked to a larger vocabulary.
The new study was published in the journal Language Sciences (Jay & Jay, 2015).

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