Swearing at work found to build team spirit, increases productivity.

Swearing at work;
http://illinois.edu/blog/view?blogId=25&topicId=1121&count=1&ACTION=VIEW_TOPIC_DIALOGS&skinId=286

This blogger also found to be quite a pleasant and humourous read.

Everything IN MODERATION now children!

Clarence Darrow may have been the first to describe swearing as a non-optional linguistic universal: "I don't swear just for the hell of it . . . . Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we ought to use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damned few words that everybody understands."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Darrow


Swearing not maladaptive:
http://illinois.edu/blog/view?blogId=25&topicId=2831&count=1&ACTION=VIEW_TOPIC_DIALOGS&skinId=286
Tolerance of pain increased for people who swear when they’re hurt.
Not yet FDA approved though.

so ... when I'm muttering away under my breath cursing at the code/script I'm writing that means I'm building team spirit (between me and my code!!!) :)


I stumbled across this when reading the weekly summary from A Word A Day
http://wordsmith.org/awad/