Profanity is a Sign of Genius, or How FTMFs has Become the New Georgia Salute

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While strolling through the Twix last night I came across this:

Consider this:

In fact, a study by psychologists from Marist College found links between how fluent a person is in the English language and how fluent they are in swearing.

People with greater language skills can generally think of more examples in the allotted time. Based on this approach, the researchers created the swearing fluency task. This task requires volunteers to list as many different swear words as they can think of in 1 minute.

By comparing scores from both the verbal and swearing fluency tasks, it was found that the people who scored highest on the verbal fluency test also tended to do best on the swearing fluency task. The weakest in the verbal fluency test also did poorly on the swearing fluency task.

What this correlation suggests is that swearing isn’t simply a sign of language poverty, lack of general vocabulary, or low intelligence.

Instead, swearing appears to be a feature of language that an articulate speaker can use in order to communicate with maximum effectiveness. And actually, some uses of swearing go beyond just communication.

I’d like for all of us to take a long, prideful bow. I believe this blog alone along with any of a Georgia fan’s presence on socials can account for this uptick in profanity. After all, when your sign off and salutation for most sports posts includes “fuck those motherfuckers” for the likes of the Handbags, the Nerds, the Gumps, the Barners, Clem’s Son, and especially the Bobby Hillbillies, then you’ve gotta stand and be recognized for your greatness. And, as a bonus, you are as eloquent as a Shakespeare Sonnet.

Pat yourselves in the back, my fellow poetic geniuses. Now let’s do our best to make sure we work to get where we belong, like our Dawgs – number 1, baby!

29 thoughts on “Profanity is a Sign of Genius, or How FTMFs has Become the New Georgia Salute”

  1. A wise man once told me “profanity is a crutch for inarticulate motherfuckers.”

    H/T Bulldawg Bill

  2. Reminds me of the old joke about the rich old man with a young, hot wife. She kept going down to the stable where she was ‘seeing’ the stable boy. He told her to refrain from going down there. The next day he caught her returning from the stable and said, “Didn’t I tell you not to go down there again? You know what kind of Gotdamn language you hear down there.”

    RIP Ranger Russ

    He could cuss the white off rice.

  4. Not taking the verbal usage ranking away from UGA fan/Georgia peeps who use unsavory language, it’s that we can’t fucking believe the got dam play call up the middle on 3rd and short and the sum bitch of a line judge marked left foot making the play 4th and shorter, if that bastard had any balls left that his wife hadn’t chewed off, he’d have marked with his mutha fucking right foot, but the fact satan was screaming in his deaf ear, that sum bitch was scared shitless, that dip shit should be washing cars, dumb fucker…GO DAWGS!!

    • Down Island Way,

      You are a lucky man; we are the only people that could understand your train of thought. Left foot, right foot we know what you be taking about.

  7. the fecking Irish are the fecking masters at fecking cussin’

  8. …and since fecking georgia is full of irish fecking descendants then that makes fecking sense

    feck florida

    In Irish… “Trasna ort féin florida (tras-na urt fayne florida)”

  10. When it comes to Georgia football, I will always have plenty of fucks to give.

  11. “The old man worked in profanity like other artists worked in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master.”
    –Ralphie

    Also Ralphie: “OHHHHHHHHHHH FUUUUUUUUUUUUDGGG those motherfuckers

  12. If all that is true, I must be some kind of freaking genius in English. Whenever I slipped and said a bad word in front of my mom she’d tell me to learn some words I couldn’t spell.

  13. There is no source of swearing greater than running a snowblower at 6:00am in March in below freezing temperatures while watching a foot of heavy wet snow drop out of the chute like a Slurpee machine at a 7-11.

    Wait…Bobo calling a draw play with our smallest RB on 3rd & 17 beats that.🤣

    • Holy fucking shit FPD. Gimme the gotdam snowblower. Was it 2016 Chaney that called the same play back to back with Isaiah Mackenzie on third AND fourth down… and got us beat by Vanderbilt? I broke my profanometer that day. I think it’s still down in the woods where I threw the fucking thing.

  14. FlyingPeakDawg, talking about a source of swearing, did you hear about the young boy who traded a worn out lawn mower to a preacher for a bicycle? Well, the next day the boy was riding his bicycle past the preacher’s house, and he was furiously pulling the cord trying to get it to crank. The boy stopped and told the preacher that he needed to cuss it some and it would crank. The preacher told the boy that he was a man of the cloth and that he had never cussed and wasn’t about to start. The boy said, “Just keep pulling that cord preacher, it’ll come to ya.” 🤣

  15. Where is Ranger motherfucking Russ when you need his potty-mouthed ass. This post could turn into a real shitshow…Imma go get some fucking popcorn.

    #fuckthosemotherfuckers

    • he was a fuckin artist for sure.

      by it if anyone needs to learn to swear in true techni-fuckin-color. I learned to speak veteran fluently during my employment in Uncle Sam’s service.

    • Not sure of the timeframe of the study, but I imagine there’s a definite downward trend starting around the time of RangerRuss’ passing.

      Also, Fuck Those Motherfuckers!

  16. Speaking of fluency in profanity, if you get Netflix check out Wicked Little Letters. It’ll teach even you a few things. Funny, too.

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