Quote Originally Posted by Оля
So Russian "mat" is something like poetry, one can only FEEL its style: its appropriateness or unappropriateness, and the degree of its roughness.
What a load of dead cobblers. Do you really think your сантехник-алкоголик savours the beauty of the Russian mat? Wrong. He simply uses it. And to use it correctly all you need to do is ... use it! Just as with the rest of the language, it all comes through training.