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Article: Hey, kids, you use @+()! and #%&* far too often ; Foul language is more common among adolescents, without much that adults can do.
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- Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2008
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Portland Press Herald (Maine)
02-27-2008
Hey, kids, you use @+()! and #%&* far too often ; Foul language is more common among adolescents, without much that adults can do.
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Edition: STORM
Section: Editorial
Column: OUR VIEWS
Type: Editorial
The villain in old-time movies used to say, "Curses, foiled again," every time the hero untied the heroine from a railroad track just ahead of an onrushing train.
But Professor Timothy Jay, billed as one of the nation's leading experts on swearing, says that euphemisms have gone by the boards as actual cursing has become far more common among U.S. teenagers and even their preteen siblings.
Foul language is more prevalent at school than at ...
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