Stephen Pinker on Cursing

October 11, 2007 in Language, Linguistics, Neuroscience

Stephen Pinker has an essay in The New Republic called simply What The Fuck? (no, I will not censor the word). It’s a brilliant deconstruction of cursing and profanity throughout history, a primer on the neuroscience of swearing, and explains why we have such a visceral reaction to some words. It even clarified why the [...]