Told you so, Mom. A recent study involving language’s most important advancement, profanity, proves that those of us who liberally douse our day-to-day conversations with so-called "swear words" are actually more articulate and possess a larger vocabulary than those who choose the opposite (boring) method of communication.
The study, published in the Language Sciences Journal, asserts that "foul-mouthed people" are the wiser bunch due mostly to the fact that words like shit and goddamn strike no fear in their hearts. "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," psychologists Kristin and Timothy Jay tell Yahoo News. "The overall finding of this set of studies, that taboo fluency is positively correlated with other measures of verbal fluency, undermines the [normal] view of swearing."
The experiment itself, which kind of sounds like it should just become an amazing drinking game, involved participants saying as many curse words as possible in a minute. Participants were then asked to do the same with animals, given the same time constraints. Those with a dirty mouth, of course, were able to name the most animals.
Stay dirty, young world.
