Does make me wonder about the 18th and early 19th C, where the written language was very polite and formal but people regularly had duels and killed each other.

Does make me wonder about the 18th and early 19th C, where the written language was very polite and formal but people regularly had duels and killed each other. But perhaps spoken language at the time was far less polite? What did Hamilton and Burr shout at each other in Weehawken, I wonder.