Psychologically, swearing is a sign of anger.

yes i do! your r right. I guess that people that swear (in my own opinion) r insecure or something cos they atack by words they react violently and don't have enough calm to think b4 react. this is just my opinion. but yes i think ppl swear too much. i don't like to hear that, and thankgod don't have that habbite....;)

Yes, I agree, I cannot tolerate a lot of nonsense words like that either. I know a person who is related only by marriage that has a terrible filthy mouth. I've told her repeatedly that it offends me, but she would continue. I'm talking about the "f" word. I take it as a sign she doesn't respect me, and have not made it a point to go around her. I know that men do disrespect women who talk like that, I used to work construction and saw women that thought they should talk like "a man". The men couldn't stand them except for thinking 'you know what'. But it's kind of a double standard for them supposed to be OK for them to say it. Men who are respectful of women don't talk that way!

I know that I don't like it even although I do it from time to time but not real bad ones and NEVER the sexual four letter ones.

I don't like people who punctuate their conversations with vulgar words. It happened to me on many occasions to hear somebody using one or two bad words in every sentence.

Once in a while, I utter one of those words and generally unconsciously . I also, belong to that category of persons who feel much more offended when a woman swears. It has nothing with sexism. It is just many still see women as a symbol of sensuality and purity.

I try not to swear as a rule for myself. Don't get me wrong, there are times when I'm really upset and a few curses fly out of my mouth. I always feel bad about it after they do. I was raised in a house where cursing wasn't looked at casually. In fact, all the way through highschool I didn't curse around my parents at all or I would've been in a lot of trouble. I think that women who completely pepper their conversations with that type of language are really unfeminine. I also think that anybody, men or women who only use that language to get their point across aren't too intelligent and can't think of any other words to use instead of vulgarities.

Most people do not want to hear swearing. In most cases, it is rude. We can get what we want by not swearing. I admit, I sometimes swear but those are extreme circumstances. that is my way of protecting my stance or getting accross a message.

Swearing is the easy thing to do. There are so many words that could be used instead of the swear word. Our languages are colorful and interesting and the use of swear words are not even necessary. Time to return to more manners and watching our word usage I say.
There is still alot that seems unbecoming to us ladies in this modern world.

That makes so much sense. I had no idea. I swear A LOT. And I'm a very pissed off person. Now I know where and why I have such a hard time with my mouth. That makes sense. I get it now. Thanks.

I'm very old-fashioned and hate to hear females swear. I was brought up that a gentleman does not swear (badly) in front of a lady as it is demaning to both sexes. When I was a lad ladies were not allowe din the bar section of a pub for that very reason so nobody would be offended if a strong male expleteive slipped out!
Nowadays it is almost compulsory for women to use the 'f' word and I find it repulsive.
Ok - let's go for broke - I hate to see women smoking in public as it looks 'common'.
Is there anybody I haven't offended?

It's really a cultural thing. In my culture, swearwords aren't particularily bad so we tend to use them a lot more than other people around us.

My best friend is French-Canadian, and words that are considered swearing in English have absolutely no connotations with obscenity in his culture. All swearing is done with religious words. My husband is German, and there are no swearwords related to sex - all their swearwords are about dirt.

So the hangup that North Americans have about specific words seems a little droll to us.