How do they pick up the words You can t use words you don t know Granted it s very hard nowadays to be sheltered from swearing and cursing but I m relieved that in my curiosity I found that the percentage of those with TS who exhibited this is considerably less than half Because the way the media and others have stigmatized this it makes it sound like people pick up swear words even if they ve never heard them and that s not possible language must be learned That brings me to my question which I think should be part of the topic How do those with this pick up the words and why do they automatically use taboo words Like say for instance I know someone with TS who has never heard He hears it I act shocked and so he figures it s taboo Does the part of his mind that says not to say it then turn off or what Further what about someone growing up in an environment where the words are not taboo like some inner cities where every 2nd word is Does this person then not say the taboo word becasue where they ve grown up they haven t learned it is taboo All things I was curious about when I looked up this article and probably all things that are far too complex for anyone to include in the article But I thought I d ask