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Why don't we just cut the crap and say it? And the conclusion that I came to, this is an earlier book, The Stuff of Thought (subtitle is Language is a Window into Human Nature), is that direct speech generates common knowledge, and that common knowledge is the basis of our social relationships. Two people--if they're friends, if they're lovers, if they're transactional partners, if they're in a dominance hierarchy--all of those are equilibria in coordination games, and they're matters of common

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Part 2 of my conversation on the Think Fast Talk Smart podcast. Full episode: https://fastersmarter.io/231-secret-signals-why-we-rarely-say-exactly-what-we-mean/ "The thing of swearing does is it elicits an involuntary emotional reaction. Your primitive part of your brain, maybe your amygdala, just gets pinged, usually with some, not just an offensive thought, excretion, feces, urine, cuckoldry, copulation, the disease, death, misfortune. Those are the subject matter of swearing across languages

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