Cussing

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Catlady (me) wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/35850>;
<<(snip) 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. >>

To which, bdclark0423 replied in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/35853>:

<< 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 
[:)] >>

Hey, I thought I was *agreeing* with you! I thought you said that
heavy use of expletives makes the speaker and listener get used to
them so that they are no longer shocking and not very effective at
expressing anger or whatever. So I mentioned an example in which heavy
use of expletives made the speaker and listener get so used to them
that their presence was totally normal and their absence was shocking.