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  2. Coprolalia - Wikipedia

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    Coprolalia (/ ˌ k ɒ p r ə ˈ l eɪ l i ə / KOP-rə-LAY-lee-ə) is involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks. The word comes from the Greek κόπρος ( kópros ), meaning "dung, feces ", and λαλιά ( laliā́ ) "speech", from λαλεῖν ( laleîn ) "to talk".

  3. Logorrhea (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, logorrhea or logorrhoea (from Ancient Greek λόγος logos "word" and ῥέω rheo "to flow") is a communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness, which can cause incoherency.

  4. Palilalia - Wikipedia

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    Palilalia is defined as the repetition of the speaker's words or phrases, often for a varying number of repeats. Repeated units are generally whole sections of words and are larger than a syllable, with words being repeated the most often, followed by phrases, and then syllables or sounds.

  5. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  6. Cursing is a sign of high intelligence, study shows - AOL

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    Intelligent people use more curse words, according to a scientific study from Marist College.. The research suggests that a healthy vocabulary of curse words is a sign of a rhetorical skill.

  7. Klazomania - Wikipedia

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    Klazomania (from the Greek κλάζω ("klazo")—to scream) refers to compulsive shouting; [1] it has features resembling the complex tics such as echolalia, palilalia and coprolalia seen in tic disorders, but has been seen in people with encephalitis lethargica, alcohol use disorder, and carbon monoxide poisoning. [2]

  8. Intermittent explosive disorder - Wikipedia

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    Intermittent explosive disorder (IED), or episodic dyscontrol syndrome (EDS), is a mental and behavioral disorder characterized by explosive outbursts of anger or violence, often to the point of rage, that are disproportionate to the situation at hand (e.g., impulsive shouting, screaming, or excessive reprimanding triggered by relatively inconsequential events).

  9. California teachers are cursing Donald Trump in the classroom ...

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    Generally speaking, K-12 teachers do not have a 1st Amendment right to share partisan speech in the classroom but are offered broad protections to do so online, said Peter Eliasberg, chief counsel ...