LizzieMaine
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Most of the swearing I heard growing up, from my 1900s-10s grandparents and my 1930s mother, was blasphemous and scatological, and very often elegantly-embriodered combinations of the same. F*** didn't show up in family circles until my mother took a job with the county in the 1980s, working for the most part with people born in the 1950s. She has, however, made up for lost time in her creative utilization of that particular word in the decades since.
I'm old enough that it still takes me by surprise to see "that sucks" printed without comment in a daily newspaper, to say nothing of hearing it spoken out loud in a humorous TV commercial.
I'm old enough that it still takes me by surprise to see "that sucks" printed without comment in a daily newspaper, to say nothing of hearing it spoken out loud in a humorous TV commercial.