The curse crosses society. Words are once blue for public, they have become increasingly common. “Language is only part of the whole turn to a more casual lifestyle,” said Timothy Jay, a peer professor of psychology at the Massachusetts Liberal Arts College in North Adams, Massachusetts.
Dr. Jay has spent a career studying the use of stupidity, from what motivates it in the ways in which he satisfies, signifies meaning and insults. Although formally retired, he continued to process stupidity studies and recently offered an opinion of experts in an ongoing legal dispute in Michigan on whether the phrase “let’s go brandon” (a euphemism used to discredit former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.) should be logically interpreted as “dirty”. (Shouldn’t, Dr. Jay happened.)
Dr. Jay believes that the increasingly occasional nature of the spoken word comes in part from the way people communicate in the social media. One study, published in 2014 by other researchers in the field, found that the words of curse on Twitter, known as X, appeared in 7.7 % of the seats, with Probanity representing about 1 in every 10 words on the platform. This is compared to a 0.5 to 0.7 % swearing -in rate in oral language, according to the study.
If these data causes you the problems, Dr. Jay has some thoughts on how to call back the stupidity. F*@%-Free February, anyone?
This interview has been concentrated and edited for clarity and cleaned some of the lay people admitted by Dr. Jay that he is regularly using on the golf course.
Why do social media contribute to the most casual use of language?
People are remote so that they can be aggressive without natural retaliation. In general, you are anonymous, so there is no personal consequence. It is also part of a larger displacement to a more casual lifestyle. What children wear at school these days would be a shame on my day.
Is this problem – not clothes, swearing?
Our culture is constantly evolving and will continue to evolve. One place is a problem is the way women are increasingly attacking online and harassment.
So don’t you really see this development as positive or negative?
Slang is done to deal with power and create a code that identifies one as a member of the group. Abuse of the loom means you are a stranger. Slang must be changed with time.
Language casualness co -exists with the casualness of clothing, workplace behaviors, music lyrics, television content, tables, etc., which have generally tended to a more relaxed state after World War II II, Especially notable in the 1960s.
You say that the words curse that people have avoided once now say regularly.
For years, I have asked people to sort words on a scale of one to 10 of which the words were the worst. A five would be “cursed” or “hell”. This was the middle range. One hundred years ago you could not use them on the radio. They are now in the comic strips in the newspaper.
Which classes are 1?
“Sugar.”
What about other alternatives for long -term curse words? Can I run some of you?
Proceed.
“Fudge” – satisfactory?
Not for me.
I hear a lot of people say “flipping” or “freaking”. Which do you prefer?
I like “Frickin” – I’ve used, “Close the door!”
What do you like about it?
It is a similarity with… [expletive].
So if something is similarly similar, does this make it satisfactory?
Is how it feels throughout your body-an autonomous nervous system reaction to listening someone says [expletive] or saying [expletive] thyself. Increases your pulse, heart rate, breathing rate above the use of a non -offensive word such as “calendar”. We recorded the testing-dating of the skin that showed that taboo words produce a more emotional reaction than the words Nontaboo. The word provokes us knowing that we will say it and continues to stimulate us even after talking.
Do these words cause natural aggression?
My research team has recorded more than 10,000 people swear by the public. We have not seen these habits turn into aggression or violence. Most swearing -in are casual, interlocutor and quite harmless. At the same time, we are more sensitive to linguistic issues related to sexual harassment, racial-ethnic discrimination, verbal abuse and threatening language than in the past.
What pulls us into a particular word?
They are personal. The psychological story of the person with hearing and saying a word mainly in childhood, and then the consequence of the use of the word again, brings the emotions previously related to the word.
It is social, which means that words that are important emotionally not only depend on the speaker’s psychological relationship with the word but also the value and vigor of the word within the community of a speaker.
And it’s natural.
Does this indicate that euphemisms may not be satisfied and that we cannot limit our curse?
The key to breaking a habit is to know that you do it and then try to bypass it.
So you can change the pattern if you want;
Yes. If you are thinking how the memory works, what you have done is that you have activated the new word in your brain. And so by activating “Freakin” or “sugar”, you do this more important.
In other words, in practice, you can reduce the power of the word curse and Strengthen the lure of euphemism.
Yes, but you need to know both pieces and that one of them is natural.
Recently, I was watching my grandson, a skier of Mogul, when he left the course. And I just said, “Dang”. He is 18 years old and I try not to swear around him. But I have to think about it, especially when I play golf.
Where do they sit in retirement, do you feel the swearing -in is in good hands?
I gave a central speech to a team of international scholars who met the swearing -in and curse of Cologne in Germany in 2015, two years before I retired. I was 65 years old at that time and most speakers were 30 and 40 years old. I realized that there was a younger generation that continued to study the words taboo in a way that it pioneered in the 1970s. It was time to get out and let them have glory.
