In Response To: Re: Is swearing a sign of Intelligence? (ben ranum)
: Swearing is usually a sign of frustrating, and in the one dudes case, he was
: pissed off about why there was no simple way to acess why the word rampant
: was used over and over and debated. Plus, a statement like swearing sows a
: a lack of intelligence points to lack of tolerance which requires
: intelligenc to maintain.
In this case, swearing gratuitously does very little to demonstrate mitylite's obvious intelligence, and in fact does quite a bit to block our comprehension of it. Swearing and intelligence aren't mutually indicative, but nor are they necessarily exclusive.
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