One of the best parts of Steven King's "That" is the way the king fully accepts the 1958 vibrations on the children's timeline. King himself was a child in 1958, so he drew the true slang used by his friends, with a specificity that would be difficult to catch if he wasn't there himself.

King's experience as a child of the 50's and a teenager from the 60s of last century found in addition to writers of HBO's upcoming show "IT: Welcome to Derry". Pointers Andy and Barbara Mushietti, both born generation after the king, did not have that intimate knowledge of slang and vulgarity in the 1950s, so they leaned on the author to help writing the dialogue for these children since 1962.

"In this back and forth we have, there are many details that you can't get, unless you talk to any of that generation," Andy Mushetti told King in The latest issue of SFX magazine. He added:

"One of the most famous moments we had in all of these events is to write it -Multi and said," Well, we didn't use the word "f ***" a lot when we were children. In fact, if you said "f ***" or "f *** ing" in front of someone, you would expect you to be broken. "So he wrote all about the word" f *** ing "because of course, there is a lot of curse in our films."

The lack of F-words in Slang in the 1950s can be seen throughout the book. While modern kids would tell Chatterbox Richie to "close F *** up" instead of children '58, instead they tell him: "BIP, BIP, Richie." You may think it's the author who repaired the story, but the rest of the book - which Not shy From the showing of ordinary weak, people would go down at the time - it is clear that it is not what is happening here.

It's easy to see what King means, because even in the past 20 years, you can definitely see the drop-down taboo nature of the F-bomb. I often hear the children say the word today, and their parents will hardly even pretend to be upset by them. We have reached the point when even Milquetoast's self -help books will be sworn in in the title, and teenagers will ridicule those titles to try too much.

Perhaps the clearest sign of the changing time is the way politicians used it. Senate candidate in Texas, Beto O'Surcus called him a boy "mother *** er" At the 2022 campaign rally, people barely noticed. Some Republicans tried to raise stench about it, but they were not successful because, good look at all Actually the wicked things that their leaders said. At some point, the politicians have ceased to be an unforgettable voter job, although they will penetrate them 20 years ago. Since 2025, we have reached the point when a politician saying that the F-word feels more pink than it is dangerous. Once Chuck Schumer starts throwing around the X-BombaYou know the word lost the whole bite.

Another indicator comes from the reaction of the word on live television. When Charles Rockett said "F *** in" in the 1981 episode of "Saturday Night Live", it shocked the nation. He had to go on tour with an apology to the NBC executions and was fired a few weeks later. Meanwhile, in the 2018 SNL sketch "SNL", accidentally hosted Sam Rockwell took out the word f, And everyone found the sliding charming. Back in Steven King's late 50s, saying that "f ***" on live television would have frightened half of the audience; Today, they will forget about it until the show is cut to commercial.