Quote Originally Posted by Mary Mary View Post
I don't want to make this a point but more of an open question, is it an English as a second language problem? I don't remember Elfyn Evans swearing or petulantly protesting being silenced. Did Craig Breen, Gus Greensmith?
Evans and the others were raised speaking English, they know that saying f@ck is a no no for your culture, and can express things in other ways. When you ask Fourmaux or any other driver that doesn't speak English as 1st language, you should consider that:
they are not as fluent in English and might struggle to express things + in English there's this small f word that you can insert at basically any point of a sentence to express big frustration or anger (not all languages work like that, in some languages you'd need to go out of your way to insert swear words in certain sentences) + some cultures just don't care as much about swear words as English speaking people.
It's the duality of having rap songs or rappers that swear twice every second, but then any swear word in more professional settings are taboos, which is not something that happens in every country.