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Re: OT: Slang, curses and vulgarities

From:Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
Date:Saturday, January 29, 2005, 18:13
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:19:38 +0100, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
wrote:

>If you just learn random words and fling them around with gusto, >you'll use one that's too weak to express your obvious emotion and >look funny, or one that's too strong than is warranted and be even >ruder than you intended, or one that's incongruous for a given >situation.
Heh, yes.
>OTOH, it depends on where you draw the line; for example, I don't >consider "Mist" as cursing. But even so, I might have days where I'm >"clean".
I counted "Mist" as well. Aside from a few Sch***e's per day, I'd be quite clean either ;) Carsten