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[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "constancevigilance"
<constancevigilance at ...> wrote:
> 
> Common Russian speach is peppered with profanity and vulgarities as a
> matter of course - it is just the way people speak and it is part of
> the native color. Hearing only cleaned up speach in the films would
> sound odd to them, so they usually spiced up the dialog.

It seems to me that common American speech is 'peppered with profanity
and vulgarities as a matter of course' but we require that movies and
especially TV shows have dialog that is cleaned up compared to real
life. IIRC George Orwell wrote somewhere that common British speech is
full of profanity and vulgarity, and IIRC he mentioned Chaucer as an
example.