Originally Posted by
Detroitnerd
Also, it's sort of funny: Detroiters are some of the most casual swearers in the country it seems to me. I think Coleman Young once said this, but, used correctly, obscenity, profanity and vulgarity can be weaved into a statement that's pithy and empty of BS.
I remember the first time I started working in the city, I was puzzled by people calling me, in second person, a MFer. In my suburban existence, those had been fighting words. In the city, it was just a word for "guy." I looked it up in the dictionary once, and under that meaning, they quoted none other than Wayne Kramer to illustrate that meaning.