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Like swearing while meeting someone's parents, or loudly within earshot of a lot of kids.

Well; in many parts of Spain, everyone kinda curses in front of everyone --even kids and the elderly.

As strange as it sounds, 'tone' is in fact quite socially conditioned.



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