WTF? Swearing at work is good for business

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:38 AM -0400 10/23/07, Doug Harris wrote:
>The various workplaces of Tony Soprano and associates do, indeed, feature
>a lot of swearing -- both social and annoyance types. There's also a certain
>amount of resulting _social cohesion_ and _stress release_ and, to one or
>another degree, a sense of _group well-being__. But there have been a
>significant number of individuals who undoubtedly would, if they could,
>question the _individual well-being_ finding -- but they can't, given that
>they're dead. I'd imagine their response to this particular finding would
>be, quite simple, WTF??????
>(the other) doug

Well, as the Onion "study" would put it, the individuals in question
did have a blast.

LH

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>    ML, 10/22/07: We eventually wound up walking into this complete
>other study:
>   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005046.html
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