What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

What the F

What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

2016 • 271 pages

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Summary: Linguist and cognitive scientist Benjamin Bergen explains what “foul language” and our use of it can uniquely reveal about the brain, language, and social science.

September 28, 2024

I wish all the nonfiction books I read approached their subjects with the same level of scientific rigor, which is surprising for a book about curse words.

January 18, 2018