People who frequently swear are more likely to have a bigger vocabulary than their clean-tongued peers, research revealed.
研究发现,经常说脏话的人要比说话文明的同龄人拥有更大的词汇量。
A colourful tongue does not mean the talker is lazy or uneducated, a study published in the Language Sciences journal found.
一项发表在《语言科学》杂志上的研究发现,一个人油嘴滑舌,并不意味着这个人很懒或者没受过教育。
Instead, those who are more confident using taboo words are more articulate in other areas.
相反,那些敢说禁忌词汇的人,在其他领域也更善于表达自己。
The experiment asked participants to say as many swear words as they could think of in 60 seconds.
这项试验要求参与者在一分钟内尽可能多地说出他们能想到的脏话。
They were then asked to do the same with animals.
随后,参与者又被要求在一分钟内尽可能多地说出他们能想到的动物名字。
Those who knew the most swear words were more likely to name the most animals as well, the research found.
结果显示,知道更多脏话的人也能叫出更多动物的名字。
Kristin and Timothy Jay, the US-based psychologists who co-wrote the study, said it proved swearing was positively correlated with verbal fluency.
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