Posted by sigismund on November 13, 2010, at 17:17:52
In reply to Civility Question, posted by ron1953 on November 4, 2010, at 13:30:56
That never arises for me, except when the obscenity is meant to indicate that I am in the same club as the person using it.
Where I grew up the stockmen were experts at swearing for minutes on end with no gap to the profanities.
The mark of the expert was to avoid repetition.
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