At 05:33 PM 4/2/2008, Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote... >I'm sure NOT a conservative ! I find them terminally boring. >...an f word or two, used well <sic>... >We don't consider it dirty at all, but more connecting and expressive "Expressive?" Maybe for people of limited vocabulary, who seem to use it whenever they don't have any other word to use. Dirty? Not usually. Vulgar, crude, coarse, common, unrefined, boorish; always. I suppose speech disfluencies ("um..," "uh...," "err...") could also be considered "expressive" in the same way. |
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