Is Swearing Justifiable?

I stumbled upon this article while browsing “The 50 Best Articles and Essays” website. I would be lying if the title wasn’t what caught my attention at first, it seemed too good to be true. The title was “The Science of Why Swearing Reduces Pain”. I find it funny because we’ve always been taught by our parents to never swear and turns out swearing may benefit us. I believe that this article was created to inform and somewhat entertain because it’s a generally funny topic. “For a very long time, conventional wisdom held that swearing was not a useful response to pain” is the hook and it’s good because its true and everyone can relate to it. The writer often uses the swear words almost like if you stubbed your toe and reading those words almost give you the sense that you just hurt yourself. There is a big variety of vocabulary in this article such as catastrophizing and maladaptive. I couldn’t really find much literary devices such as similes, metaphors or personifications in the article. I think there was some satirical tones in the article but that’s to be expected using that type topic. I really enjoyed reading this article because I learned something, and I felt sort of interested about reading more on this topic. Thanks for reading.

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