On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:05:44PM -0500, Tom Parmenter wrote:
No, it's relative to civility and incivility; "darn" is not as offensive as "damn" no matter who says it.
That's because you've never heard an elderly Englishman swear. My grandpa could turn the most innocuous of words into the deadliest and most insulting of swears entirely by the tone of his voice
Jonathan.