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[Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 01:34  PM, Diana Duncan wrote:

> I used to swear all the time (even from childhood), and was rebuked 
> for it by a coworker.  (He would call me "potty-mouth").  I could see 
> his point, and realized that it is inappropriate to use possibly 
> offensive language in a work environment.  I have since had to work 
> very hard to clean up my language, which makes me wish my parents had 
> done a better job at policing it in the first place.

Making the distinction between appropriate language and behavior with 
your friends and in public or at work is difficult to make, even for 
those in management. You would think a manager would know better than 
to simulate ejaculation onto a computer screen or what to discuss the 
general lack of oral sex in one's household in a business meeting, but 
then maybe I'm just being a prude.

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