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In reply to the discussion: I'm confused by people who are offended by swear words. [View all]After the military, my father dug ditches with a shovel. His father's job was putting crossties onto his shoulder, walking them into train cars, and dropping them off for transport.
My mother was a migrant farm worker.
My parents bought a house which had no indoor plumbing and raised a family there. (We eventually got indoor plumbing when I was about six, maybe about eight years into their marriage.)
The attitude which I was taught to have was that people who use profanity in casual conversation are vulgar/crass people. There wasn't any kind of "socio-economic status" or "lower class" element worked into that attitude.
Nobody on my mom's side of the family (the migrant farm workers) or my dad's side of the family used profanity...at least within my hearing as a kid or as an adult.
I know that was a long time ago and might as well be in a galaxy far, far away. But I still have to work against the tendency to be dismissive of people who use vulgarities.