At 4:20 PM -0600 9/24/06, Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
If you grandfather hated swearing, then he must have heard it from
others who did use it at that time.
Not necessarily -- he could have hated what he heard much more
modernly. Also, even if he did hear swearing when he was younger,
what he heard could have been (and probably was) different from what
is used modernly. (Heck, what I hear modernly is much, much different
from what I heard when I was younger, and I'm only 41!)
Language changes over time, and swearing is language.
Sharon
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