When do people curse

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You can go for a literal word-for-word translation, try to describe the film in the title, guess what the name might be based on the poster, or make up something completely new. Here, we explore a number of American movie titles in other languages. Then, we look at a few particularly fascinating title-changes, and try to group them into categories.

One of the biggest issues with movie titles in other languages is dealing with words and expressions that are specific to one language. Director David O. Russell tends to use English idioms and slang in the titles of his films.

But somehow the subtlety gets lost in translation. This trend is particularly apparent in Pixar films. In China, the titles of popular films tend to get reused, even when the new films are not sequels or even related. There are movie titles in other languages that are bad because they seem to not match the movie at all, but there are also times when differences can be ingenious.

And sometimes the rules of bad translation are broken when a new title ends up being better than the original. Profanity is experiencing a renaissance right now. A Profanaissance, if you will. Part of the reason for the increase in cussing is that psychologists keep finding benefits to swearing. Basically, swearing makes you a powerful human incapable of deception. Expletives seem to hold a very special place in the human mind.

This means cussing is baked right into human instinct, nestled into the subconscious. The researchers had Polish students translate texts that were filled with curse words, both general swear words and ethnic slurs, to see how they would translate them.

When they translated from English into their native Polish, they tended to tone down how offensive the words were. What does profanity tell us about learning a language? It means that even once you nail the grammar and vocabulary, it might take time before you really start to emotionally resonate with the language.

It also means you may want double check how words are used in a new language. Even within a language, there can be differences in swearing culture. This has caused many an American tourist including myself to be scandalized.

I t has been a long damn year. But you know what studies show may help ease your pain? Let some social scientists tell it and the way profanity affects us reveals elements of our nature as evolutionary beings, I sh-t you not. Your sensibilities give these strings of letters their potency.

For one, it allows us to express our emotions, to vent, to release. The utterance of a single f-word can convey the state of a person—whether they are angry, upset, excited, surprised or aroused—and the intensity of that state. Because we learn early on that profanity is to strong feelings what blaring horns are to a tornado, the body becomes conditioned to physically respond to it. Your heart rate increases. In studies, Americans rate those group-based swear words as the most offensive.

Of course, what is considered indecent language evolves as our cultures do, reflecting us back to ourselves through the taboos of the time. While most all languages have profanity, the offensive words differ from country to country. Go ahead and drop an F-bomb. People on bikes who swore while pedaling against resistance had more power and strength than people who used "neutral" words, studies have shown. Research also found that people who cursed while squeezing a hand vice were able to squeeze harder and longer.

People who cursed as they plunged their hand into icy water, another study found, felt less pain and were able to keep their hands in the water longer than those who said a neutral word. We all do it. But is swearing at work really ok? Stephens said it works like this: Cussing produces a stress response that initiates the body's ancient defensive reflex.

A flush of adrenaline increases heart rate and breathing, prepping muscles for fight or flight. Simultaneously, there is another physiological reaction called an analgesic response, which makes the body more impervious to pain.

Careful, however, the next time you decide to extend your workout by swearing. Curse words lose their power over pain when they are used too much, research has also discovered. Some of us get more out of swearing than others. Take people who are more afraid of pain, called "catastrophizers. I'm going to get gangrene, I'm going to die.

Cussing is a sign of creativity. Swearing appears to be centered in the right side of the brain, the part people often call the "creative brain. Being happier will help you live longer, so learn how to be happier. Research on swearing dates back to Victorian times, when physicians discovered that patients who lost their ability to speak could still curse. Throwing expletives instead of punches. Why do we choose to swear? Perhaps because profanity provides an evolutionary advantage that can protect us from physical harm, Jay said.

I don't have to get up into their face. Cursing then becomes a remote form of aggression, Jay explained, offering the chance to quickly express feelings while hopefully avoiding repercussions.