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My name is N.A. Ferrell. I am the editor of an online magazine dedicated to perennially virid content called The New Leaf Journal:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/
Today on that site, I published a new article about an amusing story from the Philippines:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/only-president-duterte-can-curse/
I am loath to spoil the entire article here,so I will stick with the reader's digest version.
The Foreign Secretary of the Philippines had some choice words for his Chinese counterpart on Twitter. Those choice words may have included at least one swear word. The Foreign Secretary was softly rebuked by the President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, who is well-known for having a fondness for choice words. The spokesman for the Duterte cabinet articulated a hitherto unknown rule:
"Only the president can curse, no one else can copy him."
Good to know, I suppose.