Why profanity, cursing, and sexual insinuation? (Congress, interview, high school, program)
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And it shows thier respective upbringing, unlike yours where you mom gave you values as did mine. My children do not use that kind of language either.
Eh. My parents raised us just fine..and we curse all the time. Of course, it's NEVER EVER in public and only in certain situations (like...NEVER around my great grandmother or relatives/friends we're not familiar with). But when it's just me and my family... I think we could make a sailor blush
Bottom line is that it's the language of people who are too stupid to use better adjectives, and those deluded into thinking that talking tough actually makes them tough.
Eh. My parents raised us just fine..and we curse all the time. Of course, it's NEVER EVER in public and only in certain situations (like...NEVER around my great grandmother or relatives/friends we're not familiar with). But when it's just me and my family... I think we could make a sailor blush
Bring it on!-- I did mean in public. I think most everyone has hit thier little toe on some cornor and has said that almighty bad word.
It is said that once Mark Twain's wife threw a line of swear words back at him, just so he could see what he sounded like. He replied "You got the words right, my dear, but you can't carry a tune in a basket".
If the social group allows you to curse it simply speaks either of informality of this group, or of your acceptance in this group. If my boss is to call me to his office and start cursing (not offending me, but just generally using curse words), that will be better than a praise, because it will let me know that he feels comfortable doing so around me.
Also, sometimes, you need these words to explain how you really feel.
Picture this: you come to your town after being absent for a long time, you find it destroyed, your house burned, your family. What are you gonna say? "oh crap"? "i don't like those bad individuals who did this?"
Probably not.
Some use language online that they do not offline because of the relative anonymity and the fact that the worst punishment for vulgarity is getting one's account revoked.
Some actually curse on a regular basis. Which is probably due to many factors in their lives. It may create assumptions about them in others, but sometimes those are not reflective of anything but their language.
Some use it to get attention or as an intimidation tactic. Of course it only works if the receivers/victims actually are of the mindset to respond to this type of online verbal activity.
I can see how, as another poster stated, in some instances curse words are a more efficient way of expressing an idea than actually spelling it out.
If one says "F- You" that is easier than saying 'the bad thing you did to me was atrocious, and because of that particular action I hope you die, catch full blown aids, or get your genitals chopped off".
I rarely use curse words online, but outside of my job and acquiring of goods and services offline, I curse like the proverbial sailor.
Basically I only curse when Windows or Word crashes while I am working But even then I usually limit it to the equivalents of 'no' or in more extreme cases '****' (oops, got replaced by asterisks, I meant excrements) or even 'goddamn ****' in my mother tongue But I never curse when there is anyone around, only when I am alone. And I avoid all sexual cursing, I think that is just too primitive.
I guess I am a rather relaxed person, I know things go wrong and the world will continue to revolve
I agree with some here who make a difference between using such words when alone and when in company. And another difference between cursing at a situation and at people
I also agree that such words can serve as a steam outlet so to speak. Maybe the mind reserves such words for such situations to express the exceptional state of mind that anger is or at least should be If so, wouldn't it be possible to simply create meaningless words for that purpose, for instance rruppassapp, and attribute them to anger?
If one says "F- You" that is easier than saying 'the bad thing you did to me was atrocious, and because of that particular action I hope you die, catch full blown aids, or get your genitals chopped off".
Hm, but wouldn't it be just as fast to say idiot instead of **** you?
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And it shows thier respective upbringing, unlike yours where you mom gave you values as did mine. My children do not use that kind of language either.
But even then I usually limit it to the equivalents of 'no' or in more extreme cases '****' (oops, got replaced by asterisks, I meant excrements) or even 'goddamn ****' in my mother tongue 
But I never curse when there is anyone around, only when I am alone. And I avoid all sexual cursing, I think that is just too primitive.
