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Or as a culture. It seems to me that the gap between what language is acceptable in informal vs formal settings is fairly large in the US, while in other countries, using words like 'bullshit' in more formal settings is less taboo.

Wonder if there's any research on this.

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I've worked at some VERY major US companies, and there was generally no hesitance to throw around significant profanity in engineering department meetings, that's for sure!

I am not sure if engineering meetings count as a formal setting though. :)

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