Swearing is fun because it’s naughty and lazy, a way to compress strong emotion (and funny to the degree unexpected)
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Mm! Maybe singing survives because prosody is procedural memory instead of declarative, and swearing survives because it's amygdala-retrieval instead of hippocampal-retrieval.
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@MelancholyYuga has talked before about how profanity is neurally homologous to limbic machinery for emotive vocalization (such as alarm calls) in monkeys. This is the best reference I can find, and it talks a little bit about singing too: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/media/users/drv1/1999_Expletives_neurolinguistic_and_neurobehavioral_persp.pdf … - 2 more replies
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