Monday, August 20, 2007

Words Like "Fuck" May be the Missing Link to the Orgin of Human Language

No shit.

I'm just throwing this out because it's neat, but some psychologists and philosophers are thinking that swearing relates to the more basic parts of the human mind. For example, today I hit my head on a cupboard door and I shouted, "fuck!" Well, I also stepped on our cat's tail and naturally she shrieked very loudly. But psychologists and philosophers think that these responses animals make to sudden disturbances like that and my response to hitting my head are one and th same.

In fact, they believe that words like fuck and shit and damn were the earliest vocabulary. So I implore you to celebrate the genesis of human language. Hell yeah.