Admiral, may I ask you a question?

Spock, don't call me Admiral. You used to call me Jim. Don't you remember "Jim"? What's your question?

Your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall I say, more colorful metaphors-- "Double dumb-ass on you" and so forth.

You mean the profanity?

Yes.

That's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word. You'll find it in all the literature of the period.

For example?

[thinks]

Oh, the complete works of Jacqueline Susan, the novels of Harold Robbins....

Ah... The giants.