Offensive/curse word usage

[Noontidal]

[Master Pre]

[Air of Winter]

I've been known to curse when angry enough, although I think I shouldn't, and I'm not particularly offended by occasional profanity. But the people who use four-letter words as often as punctuation get to me: I start wondering why I'm spending time around someone whose vocabulary suggests they've spent the last year living in a septic tank, and have an outlook to match.

[Karen]

[Adam Linton]

[Karen]

[Zan]

I think this is worthy question. I must warn you though, my response at present isn't going to be of much help, but let me explain.

I don't know if you have read William Law's, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, but if I remember correctly, Law dealt with the issue of swearing very well in the book. Though I do remember that, I don't remember exactly what his points were.

However, beyond my recommendation for picking up the book, I will search through it myself and see if I can come up with his points. I think they can be useful.

[A#minor]

[Bill]

[robsia]

[A#minor]

[boshoven]

[Genie]

I am very uncomfortable with the casual usage of 'f**k' in daily conversations by English speaking youth. My classmates, 20 something young men and women (from the States, UK and Europe) use it as some kind of epithet. These are well-educated young people. Yet, it seems to me that it is very normal for them to use the f-words.
Since I am not a native speaker, I could well be over-sensitive to that expression.
I grew up learning the word to be vulgar. And I seldom if ever curse in my mother tongue.

[AllanS]

I seldom if ever curse in my mother tongue, either. I much prefer Pakistani.

[Karen]