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I've maintained from the beginning that gutter language reveals a paltry vocabulary. This continuous use of simple-minded, four-letter obscenities reduces the strength of the statement. This is obvious if you delete it.

 

Some have suggested that this idea is contradicted by the notoriously coarse language sometimes used by George Patton. I do not have specific evidence of the general's expressions, but I will take it as accepted that he did resort to vulgarity upon occasion. I do believe, however, that since General Patton was a very cultivated man, he thought that if he spoke in his customary fashion he might be considered to be insufficiently fierce for his position, and simply wanted to sound like "one of the boys."

 

-coop

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