expletive flux once, uttered "shit's been snowing" and then realized i'd used an expletive as an expletive. 140821 ... flux i don't buy into taboo or prescriptivist talk against swearing. most often it's supralinguistic, but can also be a profound artform (e.g. mat). 140821 ... flux мат (oh, don't i wish blather knew unicode) 140821 ... flux uttered "shit's been snowing" and then realized i'd used an expletive as an expletive. 140919 what's it to you? who go blather from