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Cursing in a foreign language doesn't feel the same.

There are things I say in English that I would never say in my mother tongue without feeling bad.

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When I was a kid I would occasionally save my "bad" words for Creole, because my schoolmates and teachers didn't understand. But "the gig was up" when a French boy (who understood the dialect) transferred in.