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rsynnott on July 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: GCC 4.9 is doing “some seriously crazy shit” accor...

I don't think it's even an all-English-speaker thing; rude words are sometimes practically used as punctuation in Ireland, Scotland, and parts of England.

walshemj on July 26, 2014 [–]

yes but its like a distinct "industrial" subculture I don't use my birth (black country) dialect at work and online.

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