>>>Swearing is very therapeutic. Now that my daughters are grown up, I began swearing in front of them. The older one already swears in front of me too; the younger one is still too shy to let some f bombs go :)
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>>I'm glad it works for you, but I think it doesn't for me
>>As a teen I was thrown in with a bunch of GI's who couldn't formulate a sentence without a few choice expletives.
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>I don't think they had much choice. Remove the four words and they'd be at a loss.
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>I have a dictionary of slang which lists 205 verbs for copulation. And that's from 1975. But, imagine, the close second was "drunk", with 177 entries.
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>>For a while, I was with some Aussie GI's and those guys.. wow!
>>To be one of the boys, I went along with it and picked up the habit.
>>That changed later.
>>After my discharge I was fortunate to work as a caddy at a wealthy golf club on Long Island while going to college.
>>I was caddying for a group of men and one of them let the F bomb go.
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>If that's a bomb... well, learn a few languages from this area and you will redefine armament.
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>>Thanks to him, it became obvious to me that one of the simplest ways to show respect for the people around you is to use respectful language.
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>There I agree, but I don't define respect the same way. Not all people are offended by the same things. I, for one, am offended when someone starts spouting any kind of propaganda; if political, they will be verbally assaulted by me, using all kinds of nasty questions ("who, and with what authority, signed the Agenda 21 on behalf of our city? Did they even read it to you?"). If religious, different assortment of questions.
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>As for cursing, it depends. If nobody does it in the present company, neither do I. If it's the company of old pals (girls included, I don't care that we're all around 59 now), many words which may not pass for print will be uttered, but none of them directed at each other, just against the general injustice found in various manifestations of the surrounding universe. There's even some art in pronouncing "eh, fuck it" as a mild complaint. And then there's the army, while we were conscripts, when not cursing would make one stand out in a wrong way.
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>It's all in the eye of the present company.

I love it when women swear. Some do, some don't. (God, I would pay a lot of money to a good cause to listen to Tamar drop the F bomb). My uncle was in the Navy and had to hitch home to Maine from San Diego. He said I knew I was back in New England when the women were swearing again.