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Why Are Bad Words Bad?

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Support Vsauce, your brain, Alzheimer's research, and other YouTube educators by joining THE CURIOSITY BOX: a seasonal delivery of viral science toys made by Vsauce! A portion of all proceeds goes to Alzheimer's research and our Inquisitive Fellowship, a program that gives money and resources directly to growing science channels here on YouTube! https://www.curiositybox.com Follow Michael Stevens for more:   / tweetsauce   EXTRA INFO & LINKS BELOW! Music by    / jakechudnow   Marchex Institute study: http://blog.marchex.com/2013/05/15/ma... Canada's most vulgar city: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/... "Bad" etymology: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?t... "Grawlixes": http://www.fastcodesign.com/1673017/q... Mort Walker - The Lexicon of Comicana: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lexicon-C... First use of grawlixes: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/... Slate's Lexicon Valley: "A Brief History of Swearing": http://www.slate.com/ar …...more
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Why Are Bad Words Bad?
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2013Nov 28
Support Vsauce, your brain, Alzheimer's research, and other YouTube educators by joining THE CURIOSITY BOX: a seasonal delivery of viral science toys made by Vsauce! A portion of all proceeds goes to Alzheimer's research and our Inquisitive Fellowship, a program that gives money and resources directly to growing science channels here on YouTube! https://www.curiositybox.com Follow Michael Stevens for more:   / tweetsauce   EXTRA INFO & LINKS BELOW! Music by    / jakechudnow   Marchex Institute study: http://blog.marchex.com/2013/05/15/ma... Canada's most vulgar city: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/... "Bad" etymology: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?t... "Grawlixes": http://www.fastcodesign.com/1673017/q... Mort Walker - The Lexicon of Comicana: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lexicon-C... First use of grawlixes: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/... Slate's Lexicon Valley: "A Brief History of Swearing": http://www.slate.com/articles/podcast... 1 Kilohertz censor beep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleep_ce... Steven Pinker lecture:    • Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought:...   Swearing history: http://www.salon.com/2013/05/11/the_m... remembering taboo words: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/... Swearing in the brain: http://blog.scienceinsociety.northwes... http://www.howstuffworks.com/swearing... no words should be banned? http://bigthink.com/against-the-new-t... Mythbusters' Swearing Test:    • MythBusters - Jamie Swearing Test | N...   Coprolalia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolalia Lalochezia: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedict... 7 dirty words: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_di... Swearing is changing: http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/3056... http://www.slate.com/articles/life/th... Swearing in the future: http://io9.com/http-0-media-cdn-foolz... Swearing behaviour on Twitter: http://www.business2community.com/inf... McKay Hatch - The No Cussing Club: http://nocussing.com/ N.W.A. F*ck Tha Police:    • Video  

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