Australians are outdone by Americans and Brits in how often they swear and in how many users swear online. - Max Pepper/CNN Polite society considers swearing to be a vulgar sign of low intelligence ...

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Swearing was long dismissed as a topic of serious research because it was assumed to be simply a sign of aggression, weak language proficiency or even low intelligence. We now have quite a lot of ...

Got a potty mouth? A new book claims it could help steel you against depression and illness. That’s according to Emma Byrne, author of Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language ...

That's a sign of intelligence "to the degree that language is correlated with intelligence," said Jay, who authored the study. "People that are good at language are good at generating a swearing ...

Polite society considers swearing to be a vulgar sign of low intelligence and education, for why would one rely on rude language when blessed with a rich vocabulary? That perception, as it turns out, ...

Polite society considers swearing to be a vulgar sign of low intelligence and education. That perception, as it turns out, is full of, uh ... baloney. Swearing is a sign of intelligence, helps manage ...