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The Science of Profanity

Boston Phoenix | April 9, 2009

Timothy Jay, PhD, is a goddamn expert, and in a newly published study he alleges it's a fucking tragedy that so many academics don't give two shits about how and why we curse.

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Tags: Timothy Jay, profanity, linguistics

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