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Re:Musk revises Mars ambitions by fnord123 on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:32PM (#15367296)
It's largely an American thing.
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Re:Musk revises Mars ambitions by toephu2 on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:40PM (#15367390)
False. The Japanese language itself doesn't really have any swear words let alone the culture being averse to using any swear words in public.
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Re:Musk revises Mars ambitions by fnord123 on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:37PM (#15367881)
GP asked if only Americans are averse to swearing. Japanese don't have swearing so they're not averse to it. So this is not a counterexample as far as I can see.
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