For a more detailed explanation (and if you don't want to figure out where in the video he talks about it), Pinker wrote an article too: http://www.scribd.com/d

For a more detailed explanation (and if you don't want to figure out where in the video he talks about it), Pinker wrote an article too: http://www.scribd.com/doc/389762/Steven-Pinker-What-the-Fuck-Why-We-Curse http://www.scribd.com/doc/389762/Steven-Pinker-What-the-Fuck... (I believe this is just an excerpt from his book, The Stuff of Thought, but it's been a while since I've read the book so I don't remember.)