Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
... to describe how he habitually talked when he was a much younger man "who didn't know better." ... a lot of people were shocked by Nixon's obscene language in the Watergate tape recordings...
Так и есть. В данном случае в книге так разговаривают black подростки (слово встречается 5 или 6 раз в книге), только в одном случае автор употребляет это при разговоре с баскетбольным тренером.
I am not surprised about Nixon, I've seen 'The Wire' show and there quite high ranking politicians (like city mayor) use the f-word very often, so I concluded that it's quite a common thing in US politics в кулуарах (it reminds me of a video placed on youtube when Russian minister of education supposedly said Ты чё ох...ел to his aide when they thought the mike was off).