[gcruse]

I was raised to never curse around women, which is probably a compromise for when my forebears refused to stop cursing entirely. Things were OK when I moved my family to Canada in 1970. When we moved back in 1980, young women had acquired a filthy mouth they seemed proud of. Oddly, they didn't acquire the admonition to keep their curses between themselves and other women. They used every word I ever heard as if the language were every day parlor talk. It hasn't gotten any worse since, but then, how could it?

[bimbo]

Things were OK when I moved my family to Canada in 1970. When we moved back in 1980, young women had acquired a filthy mouth they seemed proud of.

A lot of young Americans left for Canada in 1970 to avoid what they disliked about America - mainly the Vietnam War and the draft. Yes, and many of them returned in 1980 - after the war - only to find that there were still things they disliked about America. If thing were better up north, why return with complaints? Many stayed in Canada, in Sweden, and in Britain.