hate to break it to you but kids will be swearing within a week of secondary school

Quite. I swear on occasions, usually when I am angry, but wouldn't normally swear at someone, and don't feel the need to on this site.

Is it that great a hardship, on the odd occasion, to express oneself without resorting to swear words? Using rude and abusive language ultimately detracts from the message and makes you sound ignorant.

description, dialect or swearing?

Many replies seem to be based on language used in context. I am unable to get through a game without swearing. I am intelligent. I am educated. I am also from South London (Forton Heef). So I have a mixture of language that literally spews forth on the Holmesdale.

Lets say we miss a sitter.. S**t! I cry.

Now I am definitely describing what I have just seen, sworn and from the verbal reactions around me heard likewise language. Context - terrace.

But we also have a dialectical issue too. In South London and certainly in my house the word 'S**t' is used to describe something brilliant, terrible, woeful, painful, hot, etc... part of our dialect?

I have no point other than language is a funny thing, it changes and it evolves.

Unlike Casual I can't swear at work, I'd be sacked - not because I don't think that someone is a ******* but because it is completely and utterly the wrong setting.

Just saying the filters on here don't protect anyone from learning or using swear words.

There is nothing inherently wrong with using them

Everyone on here knows the words whether there are stars or not

Lets get rid of them.

Free speech!!!

It would have had an even greater effect if you left out the profanity and said "who do you think you are talking to mate?" as that makes you out to be more intelligent and articulate rather than just another thug.

Yet again a more intelligent and articulate person would demand more respect if he said that he didn't need lessons in the English language from a yam yam.

Again another example of when not swearing could be used. Of course I didn't mean any of it, just thought it fitted in with the context of the thread.