Fight Night
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The author uses colorful language laced with profanity as a means of characterization, suggesting that Elvira and Mooshie are blunt and direct people who do not feel the need to censor themselves in front of a child. Because of this, Swiv also uses profanity, which she obviously learned from her mother and grandmother.