{"id":2391,"date":"2026-05-09T21:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:56:13","slug":"a-robust-vocabulary-of-curse-words-signals-strong-verbal-fluency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2391","title":{"rendered":"A robust vocabulary of curse words signals strong verbal fluency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/a-robust-vocabulary-of-curse-words-indicates-strong-verbal-fluency\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"A robust vocabulary of curse words signals strong verbal fluency\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/swearing-curse-words.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.psypost.org<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">A robust vocabulary of curse words signals strong verbal fluency<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">A persistent cultural myth holds that people default to cursing because they lack the vocabulary for proper expression. Recent psychological research contradicts this idea, showing that knowledge of swear words correlates directly with overall verbal fluency.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}