re: #397 esch

My dad, an officer in WW2, and Jesuit educated before that, found that if he gave an order to an enlisted man, using precise and economical language, it was often not comprehended, but if he gave the same order interspersed with a number of foul words, it was understood. He said that the extra words were spacers, in order to give the receiving person time enough to comprehend the words that had the order’s meaning in them.

Some things do not change, apparently.