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What is it about using the word "shit" that makes the article's contents not worth parsing to you? The tone of the article is very casual, and in casual English dialogue plenty of very intelligent people say "curse words" all the time. It sounds like you have a less than friendly bias towards people for little more than a variation in dialect.

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One shit is ok, one fuck is ok. The abuse of these words doesn't make sense to me.

English is my second language and even I could use other words to express a similar sentiment.

Separate observation but in my experience people who speak English as a second language tend to speak much more properly, and use curse words much less than native speakers.

Personal experience here. I've observed that non-native english speakers say "shit" more often than the equivalent word in their own language.

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