Steven Pinker does a pretty admirable job of running down some ideas on swearing: http://www.tnr.com/currentissue/story.html?id=246c0071-a9cd-46e2-a665-c6e61a4

Steven Pinker does a pretty admirable job of running down some ideas on swearing: http://www.tnr.com/currentissue/story.html?id=246c0071-a9cd-46e2-a665-c6e61a45377e http://www.tnr.com/currentissue/story.html?id=246c0071-a9cd-...