dog_grinning From The Explosive Child by Ross Greene:

For example, dogs don’t  have language. So if you were to step on a dog’s tail,  he’d have only three options: bark at you, bite you, or  run away. But if you step on the metaphoric tail of a  linguistically compromised human being, he’d have  only the same three options: bark at you, bite you, or  run away. From this perspective, swearing can be  thought of as nothing more or less than the human  “bark.” It’s what we humans do when we can’t think of  a more articulate way to express ourselves.

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