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It expresses the evident disgust and offense of the elder women overhearing the conversation. On the other hand, Quindlen uses cognitive as she contrasts three major publications" methods of handling then Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush's reference to a reporter as a "major-league @$$ho!e". She quotes New Yorker editor David Remnick saying, " it seems patronizing to me to invent euphemisms or insert dashes. The readers are grown up. They've heard these things before." This implies that cursing is just a part of our culture that is unavoidable, and it is futile to act like it does not happen. There is a label that plays an important role in the agenda. The labeling of the boys" word in context in the subway as "the ultimate swear word" plays an important role in the agenda being set. It exemplifies the severity of America's often times nonchalant usage of the word. This role is in no way questionable. It clearly expresses the feelings of the writer and the women on the subway about the word.
             3) Quindlen makes the knowledge claim that ".an expletive deleted is nothing much." And according to the correspondence theory of truth, claims are true because they correspond to the facts to which they point. The subsequent facts back this claim up. Her research provides a study from psychologist Timothy Jay, "Cursing in America." It says that curses count for eight percent of leisure conversation among college students, but a full thirteen percent among their elders. The majority of this column revolves around the concept of what is seen as what in relation to cursing. To some, any form of cursing is seen as completely unacceptable in any context. To others, cursing is seen as something that has become washed up, overused, and basically weakened to the extent that it may not be acceptable, but it is common part of American language now--just with different meanings.


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