As I've probably said elsewhere, it really doesn't bother me unless it's aimed at somebody specifically. If it's just a part of the flow of thought/words, I leave it alone.Loremaster wrote:...I'm not condoning it, nor would I swear. Perhaps it is the context of its use that offends.
Funnily enough though, despite the fact that I almost never swear when posting, the only difference between what you read here, and the way that I talk in real life, is that when I speak, (as opposed to writing), I swear all the time. The rest of my vocab is unaffected, but interspersed with many, many swearwords.
And when I say all the time, I mean so much that I often tell myself that I swear far too much. Don't seem to be able to do much of anything about it, it's a habit that I can't break, and don't really care about breaking when it comes to that. And the reason it doesn't affect my writing is that I think about my words when I write. I choose them far more carefully, perhaps because they are, to all intents and purpose, more permanent.
When we get right down to it though, swearing is a remarkably effective/satisfying way of expressing strong emotion. But I think that in general, swearing has lost almost, if not all, "shock" value. As soon as "swearwords" were included in dictionaries, we saw the beginning of the end of swearing as "shock tactics".
And let us not forget that as our culture evolves, so too does our language. "Penis" was once the Latin slang term for the male reproductive organ, and considered to be a word used by "commoners". Now it's the medically accurate term. What else will change?
--Avatar
But then she finds "crap" offensive. Hell, yesterday I said "poo" within earshot, and she was offended by that! 
