Cuss Words: The Beauty and Affect of Them

Curse words. They seem to be the most effective way to show how you feel, in my personal opinion. I am an avid curser since I've been raised around it, from family members to music and television. When I usually cuss, I never really have any malice behind it. The use of it is to explain something and give it more depth, but some people get offended by it. I love to cuss, not just cause (I don't do it just to do it), but to get a point across. That is what speech is about. Even though I love it: The thing is, there is a good and bad casual sequence associated with it.

First of all, I will like to say it is not against the Bible to say, what we deem as curse words a sin. It is not a Biblical sin, but more of a social taboo. I have yet to read a chapter, which says that "fuck, bitch, ass milk" or any other connotation considered dirty as a sin.There are curse words in the Bible, but the follow the actual "definition"of curse (we'll get in to that later). If the word "the" was considered to be in the category as such words, we would deem it as bad either, even though it is really harmless.

Or is it?

Although it might be meant in a harmless way when saying it, scientifically the brain has a different view on it. Taboo words activate brains area with a negative emotion. Just by hearing a negative word, the right hemisphere of the brain is activated.

The basal ganglia is where motor control, cognition, but most importantly where emotion is made. Every time a cuss word is said or written, a negative emotion is automatically processed involuntarily. A clear case of this is the STROOP TEST.

Demonstration
Say the color of these words as fast as you can:

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Green Red Blue

Yellow Blue Yellow

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Fuck Cunt Shit

Ass Bitch Dick

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According to the Stroop effect, the first set of colors would have had a faster reaction time.

In the demonstration, you should have been able to do the first part without a hitch. Just saying them and knocking them out like nothing. Once you get to the second part, you'll notice you register them a little slower than before. Why is that? It is the involuntary negativity you get from seeing words like that, that bothers you. All words have affect people, but cuss words do it the most. There is a reason behind why people do it and it is not always negative.

Forms of Cussing
1. Supernatural - damn, hell, Jesus Christ
2. Bodily Effigies and Organs - ass, dick, asshole
3. Disease, death - "I curse a pox on you"
4. Sexuality revulsion - fucking, dick
5.Disfavored people and groups - nigger, kike, spic

How We Swear
1. Dysphemistic Swearing
2. Abusive Swearing - to intimidate or humiliate someone

There is a lot of ingenuity of abusive swearing. A person tries their hardest to come up with some of the most disturbing things to hurt the other person. Most of the time, it is accusing the other person of undignified sexual activities. An MRI study is shows that a lot of brown power goes in to swearing.

Why do people try to evoke negative emotion in listeners?

• Dysphemistic Swearing - shit---> feces, fuck-->copulate - all synonyms but the cuss word is used to show how awful it is.
• Euphemism - this is when you feel that you have to talk about it even when you don't.
• Dis-euphemism - This is the many variations to say one word and you use the least awful to get your point across. A prime example is that there are 34 euphemisms for the word feces. All range from generic, formed with children, medical, animals, agriculture. These are needed because you never want a doctor to ask you for a "doo doo" sample or that your playground your kids are playing on is full of shit. The need for dis-euphemisms: "Will you pick your dog shit up?"It lets the receiver know how mad you are.
• Incest - Motherfucker
• Sodomy - bugger, fellatio, masturbation
• Bestiality - This is a quote that originated from 1585: "Kiss the cunt of a cow!" Now that is what I called alliteration and GRADE Acussing right there.
• Idiomatic - Shit out of Luck, Piss poor
• Inviscid Swearing - "Look at him! He thinks he's Michael Fucking Jordan or something!"
  

I use this form of cussing the most. Saying things like it's fucking brilliant or that's fucking great falls in that category. Although, I don't see the harm in it, somebody else might.

• Fuck Patois - Example: "I come home to my fucking house after three fucking years in the fucking war and what do I fucking well find, my wife engage in illicit sexual activities.
• Cathartic Swearing - This is the most conventional swearing. Most people do this after hurting themselves.
• Rage Circuit Theory: If you ever stepped on a tail of a cat, the first thing they do is hiss or growl at you. This is basically telling you to step the fuck back from the cat. If someone hits you or a person cuts you off when not turning on the turn signal, your rage circuit could be ignited and start this.
• Response Cry Theory - Communication that informs bystanders on what you are going through.

And the main reason people cuss:
To impose their thoughts on others. Doing this allows the person to gain the other person's attention, intimidate, humiliate them, amongst other things.

CONCLUSION

At the end of the day, there is no way that cussing will not be able negatively affect someone. Even if you mean no harm by it, the brain is already against you. You have to take in consideration on how the person feels. they also should know how you act and what you find as normal dialect between you. The biggest thing that divides people is miscommunication. By talking, problems such as cuss words will not be that: A PROBLEM.