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| (snip) two words: WHY SWEAR? My experience has been that people who swear continually aren't intelligent enough to come up with a better word to use in their vocabulary. (I figure I'm going to get some nasty comments from that statement..let's see (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The true master of language doesn't place any word in the English vocabulary off limits. In some cases, the rude word is just the correct one. Just ask Chaucer, William Shakespeare, DH Lawrence, or Henry James. Stupid use of a cuss word is (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I was looking through this thread to find someone saying this, if not I was going to say it myself. I take a slightly different stance tho, to my mind swear words are useful expressions of extreme emotion and if you use them in general (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I agree completely--like I said before, it should be about self policing ourselves. My big concern is that some of the younger audience might be reading. If children repeat what they read, then we may have parents having issues with Lugnet. (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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