The note at the start says "This is an exact transcript of this podcast". The actual content is full of "@$#%!" and suchlike. So does the speaker in the podcast

The note at the start says "This is an exact transcript of this podcast". The actual content is full of "@$#%!" and suchlike. So does the speaker in the podcast say things like "Holy at-sign dollar hash percent exclamation mark"? An article about the same research at the researcher's university -- http://keeleuniversitypressoffice.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/swearing/ http://keeleuniversitypressoffice.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/s... -- is more specific about what sorts of word the subjects were allowed to use in the two conditions. It wasn't that they were "only allowed to use more socially acceptable words" in the no-swearing condition; more specifically, they were asked to use "a more commonplace word that they would use to describe a table". The abstract of the paper says "a neutral word". So, in particular, it isn't that subjects were having to expend mental energy thinking up socially acceptable expletives :-).