We cover one of our most requested topics: swearing. Why do people swear? How do we rate the severity of swear words? What does taboo language tell us about a culture?
EJ mentioned feeling the emotion from swear words more in a first language than in second languages. There have been several studies that mention this, including Emotion and lying in a non-native language (Caldwell-Harris & Ayçiçeği-Dinn, 2009) and A study on the effects of first- and second-language swear words in advertisements (Hoeve, 2020).
