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Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Effects of Novel Swear
Words
Author : sega_sai
Score : 30 points
Date : 2025-06-29 12:14 UTC (2 days ago)
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| timewizard wrote:
| Anecdotally I find swearing makes it worse. Now I just saw "ow!"
| or "that hurt!" Which honestly feels like it synchronizes my
| brain past the insult and I can move on much faster past it.
| MisterTea wrote:
| Similar: I say something amusing/funny, e.g. I hit my head on a
| piece of metal and yelled "ah ya mother was a tin can you metal
| bastard" which breaks your thought from the pain. Screaming
| fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... only keeps you focused.
| codeulike wrote:
| Twizpipe
| slig wrote:
| Anecdotally, I find swearing in German and Italian satisfying and
| people around usually don't understand, so no issues there.
| pif wrote:
| I had been working at CERN for a bit less than a year, when my
| Russo-Israelian coworker, who had never visited Italy, erupted
| in a perfect "Porca puttana!" that made me question my manners
| in the office.
| fuzzy_biscuit wrote:
| I swear in Italian and Russian. Great minds think alike!
| MattPalmer1086 wrote:
| At school my German teacher loved to teach us the longest swear
| word in German (or so he claimed). He would illustrate it by
| pretending he hit his thumb with a hammer, and then he would let
| out this wonderful long stream of invective, but which is one
| word in German. He would then translate it all for us.
|
| No idea if it helps with hitting your thumb with a hammer, but
| memorable teaching!
| MisterTea wrote:
| > longest swear word in German
|
| Inquiring minds want to know...
| MattPalmer1086 wrote:
| I wish I could remember. Words in German can be long as they
| are composed of other words. It was along the lines of
| thunder and lightning and terrible storms blight you! But I
| think there was a bit more to it than that.
|
| EDIT; and the teacher may have made the entire thing up of
| course! Loved his lessons.
| cubefox wrote:
| By the way, English also has compound nouns, only they are
| sometimes written with spaces and sometimes without.
| Sometimes even with dashes. E.g. compare "coalmine" and
| "file name". Compound nouns can get arbitrarily long too,
| e.g. "file name length limit history blog post
| introduction".
| SoftTalker wrote:
| And they work as swears too.
|
| _Goddamnmotherfuckingsonofabitch_
|
| etc.
| cubefox wrote:
| Though I believe that's technically not a compound noun.
| (Fun fact: "compound noun" is a compound noun.)
| sib wrote:
| While English has compound nouns, they are different in
| that they are not (generally) single words.
|
| For example, the lovely and memorable
|
| Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitatenhauptbetriebswerkbauun
| terbeamtengesellschaft
|
| would be translated into something like
|
| "Association for Subordinate Officials of the Main
| Maintenance Building of the Danube Steamboat Shipping
| Company"
| Finnucane wrote:
| You'll sing a different tune when you're getting fouched in the
| twizpipe.
| mjanx123 wrote:
| The origin of language
| layer8 wrote:
| (2020)
| slowmovintarget wrote:
| "Glenfarclas!" I frequently exclaim to the bewilderment of my
| child.
| IAmBroom wrote:
| There's a lovely story of a dad who's wife said, "Lil Johhny
| said a bad word today. Go talk to him." Or something to that
| effect.
|
| "Johnny, Momma tells me you said X. That's pretty bad, but at
| least you didn't say the worst word..."
|
| "What's that?" "Can't tell you!" <negotiations> "OK, but you
| have to PROMISE you'll never say it in front of Momma. It's
| <whispers> booglashek."
|
| Next day, all his friends were over, calling each other
| booglasheks.
| smitelli wrote:
| Percy Livermore: We must rid our speech of slang. Now,
| besides "OK", I want you all to promise me that there are two
| words that you will never use. One of these is "swell" and
| the other one is "lousy".
|
| Lucy Ricardo: OK, what are they?
|
| Percy Livermore: [with emphasis] One of them is "swell" and
| the other one is "lousy".
|
| Fred Mertz: Well, give us the lousy one first.
| EvanAnderson wrote:
| I spelled around my daughter. This worked until, between 3 and
| 4 y/o, she asked a preschool teacher what "F-U-C-K" spelled.
| The teacher asked where she'd heard it and she said her father
| spelled it a lot.
| techdmn wrote:
| Many years ago, my daughter (maybe six at the time), lost
| something semi-important to her, I don't recall what. I think it
| might have been her username / pictorial password card for her
| school network account. Anyway, we were looking for it, and she
| said "Dad, dad, I don't know where it is, I feel like I'm going
| to say a bad word".
|
| I, having just read an article like this, said "That's ok,
| sometimes saying a bad word can help you process your emotions
| and feel less stressed. Do you want to go down to the basement
| where nobody can hear you, and say the bad word?"
|
| "Yes". She goes down the stairs, I close the door, and she yells
| at the top of her lungs: "I can't fucking find it!". I managed
| not to laugh, she comes back up, "Do you feel better?" "Yes."
| Great moments in parenting. :-) (We did eventually find whatever
| it was.)
| jacobgkau wrote:
| To think, you could've taken that opportunity to point out to
| her that saying the bad word didn't actually help her find it.
| Or you could've told her immediately that you heard her through
| the door because she yelled. Instead, you raised a casual
| swearer who's unaware of her surroundings. I hope nobody ever
| has to live in an apartment next to her.
| throwaheyy wrote:
| "Theres a fucking goat outside."
|
| "No, it's just 'a goat'."
|
| "No! It's a fucking goat!"
| irrational wrote:
| Personally I'm more into sheep, but I won't kink shame.
| anoncow wrote:
| There is also an impact of swear words on pleasure. Also on
| strength and performance -
| https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S14690...
| adammarples wrote:
| What the jiggins!
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