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Daniel Moskovich's avatar

As the son of a linguist and a bit of a purist, I don't assign merit to "clean language", rather to "authentic language". Governments always try to standardize language, to eliminate local variation and dialects. And in a sense, your "swearing" is a dialect.

My vote is for "use it with pride". It's your heritage, it's precious, and there's no reason to feel guilty about it!

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Eitan Levy's avatar

Thank you! There is also the aspect of living in more than one language, which you share with me, which I think takes some of the sting out of taboo words. I didn't explore that in the essay...

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Eitan Levy's avatar

OMG I love this. Thank you so much.

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Nisa Levy's avatar

This is great! Our israeli born grandsons freely used that word from the age of four having no idea what it meant. They stopped when told it was socially frowned on in the us. A lot of color went out of our conversations.

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Tammy's avatar

Yishuv tov to your parents!!

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Eitan Levy's avatar

Thank you! I passed that on to them. 😊

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Nisa Levy's avatar

Wow! I really liked this one. Also how you avoided blaming me entirely for your foul mouth. I do accept some of the blame. I blame my dad for most of it which he picked up at Ft. Levenworth Kansas in the Korean War. Keep up the good work!!!!

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Eitan Levy's avatar

So have I cast false aspersions on grandma?

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Nisa Levy's avatar

Yeah. She picked it up from my dad.

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Eitan Levy's avatar

Thanks Ma. ❤️

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