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[bdclark0423]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at ...> wrote:
>
> bdclark wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/35733>:
>
> << When you hear a conversation that is so heavily diluted with
> vulgarity and cuss words, the power of those words also becomes
> diluted. >>
>
> I read someplace that revered anthropologist Ned Hall wrote that that
> was precisely the purpose of all that cussing in the armed forces -
> that putting the f-word two or three times per sentence signaled that
> everything was normal, while a sentence without the f-word signaled
> that this is URGENT.
>


bdclark0423:

Last time I checked, I wasn't part of military, nor were these
eighth graders wanting to have the ban on bad language.  In fact,
percentage of Military vs. Civilians is so low, that I'm almost
embarrassed I'm actually responding to this reference.  However, I'm
sure there's good reason why there was need to create this posting  [:)]



bdclark0423.



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