Monday, October 22, 2007

Censoring colorful cliches confounds collaboration


Well I'll be damned....

Sugar3 ran across this article on swearing in the workplace.

Not sure about an all out expletive fest, but "golly, gosh, darn" does feel woefully inadequate when CrackedPot has just slipped and jabbed a needle through the webbing between forefinger and thumb or nicked a finger with the scalpel.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

For a slightly more academic take on the theoretical foundations on humans and "why we curse," check out the recently published article "What the F***?" by Steven Pinker.

Certain parts of it are even fun to read aloud (but not at work).

jms said...

Interesting F***** article! I feel better already!