This is a topic I've been wandering about for some time now. Is swearing a good thing or a bad thing?
I know that research has been done that suggests that swearing immediately after an injury can act as an analgesic, but only for a person who doesn't swear very often, as opposed to thos f-ing people who f-ing swear all the f-ing time. People who never stop swearing, even to point where they say "f-ing" rather than "erm".
Then again there are those who say that swearing is a degredation to one's vocabulary. I would disagre with that claim as in certain contexts swearing can enhance how somebody feels about a certain topic or just to express an emotion. Of course if used at the wrong time it can be offensive and words such as those with racial origins should be avoided, but used moderately and sensibly, I advocate that swearing is an important function of language that should no longer be shunned.