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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Steven Pinker is F***ing Awesome

I just came across this article in The New Republic, in which Steven Pinker explores why curse words are so viscerally powerful. Pinker includes what may be my favorite description of an expletive ever, "gynecological-flagellative term for uxorial dominance". Took me a second to guess what that was...

(via Mindhacks)
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