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Am I the only one or is the lack of crude language taking anyone else out of the show? It’s a military show and I’m expecting every other word to be “mother fricker” and “cock sucker”, but there is hardly any cursing.

I think they might have cussed less than you think. I know Dick Winters took them to task over the original script of Band of Brothers because he said they didn’t talk like that. He said when you live that close to death a lot of guys play it pretty straight. I’m not saying it was all golly gee in WWII but I’m not sure it was a Dave Chapelle routine either.

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Posted by Pettifogger

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Posted on 1/30/24 at 10:15 am to arktiger28

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I think they might have cussed less than you think. I know Dick Winters took them to task over the original script of Band of Brothers because he said they didn’t talk like that. He said when you live that close to death a lot of guys play it pretty straight. I’m not saying it was all golly gee in WWII but I’m not sure it was a Dave Chapelle routine either.

I know the general consensus is that wartime/military language has always matched our crudest offerings, but I'm just not sure it's as across the board as we make it (or would have been in the 30s/40s).

I always think of the NJ video of the second plane hitting on 9/11 (I believe it was on a ferry board or similar) and the reactions of those in the video. It is astounding. "Oh my gosh" "Oh goodness" "oh no!" etc. And those are NYers/NJ types only a couple of decades ago.

In 2023 it would be "holy S***" "What the f***!" "F*** me" etc.

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