Part 2 of my conversation on the Think Fast Talk Smart podcast. Full episode: https://fastersmarter.io/231-secret-signals-why-we-rarely-say-exactly-what-we-mean/ "The thing of swearing does is it elicits an involuntary emotional reaction. Your primitive part of your brain, maybe your amygdala, just gets pinged, usually with some, not just an offensive thought, excretion, feces, urine, cuckoldry, copulation, the disease, death, misfortune. Those are the subject matter of swearing across languages