>>I can promise you that his teachers didn't want to hear those words in school any more than I want to hear them from my kids at home.
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>Thats funny, my teachers told me to read "Catcher in the Rhye" and "Of Mice and Men". I know I got an "A" on a small presentation about this paragraph in an English class:

Good counter-example and a good example of when you might expect to hear those words in school or in polite conversation. But if your presentation on the paragraph had included these words outside of the quote or a reference to it, you probably wouldn't have gotten an A.

Tamar