I attended a seminar, years ago that focused on cursing and what it does to our ability to speak clearly and succintly in stressful situations. If you depend on the four letter words to help you express yourself, when you are in a situation where those words are not appropriate, you will either find yourself in an embarrassing situation by using one or you will resort to a kind of bleeped stuttering while you search for an appropriate word.
I gave up cursing that day - after all I was the Mayor-pro-temp and had a career as am auditor.. I did not become militant and expect everyone else to do the same thing like X smokers sometimes do..My husband did not attend the seminar and found no need to change his speech habits.
After 5 years of not uttering a curse word, I was driving my daughter home from school and the roads were slick. The car started sliding though an intersection and I uttered a D workd. My daughter couldn't wait to get home to tell the rest of the family. It became a really big deal.
When you set a high standard for yourself and fail there are always plenty of people around to point it out. If they have the maturity of an 8 year old (like the liberals) they will point it out again and again and again.
I too, took it upon myself to restrain my language. And this was back when I was a welder! What is sad, though, is how course language has become, even in environments were it is reasonable to expect better. Such as upper management in corporations.
Reminds me of the rich Socialite who ran into an old college sority sister. The rich socialite told her friend that her Husband gave her a Rolex watch for Christmas to which her friend replied " Well, isn't that nice." Continuing, the rich socialite said her husband also gave her a new Lexus for Christmas, to which her friend replied "Well, isn't that nice." When the rich socialite asked her friend what she got for Christmas the friend replied "A two week etiquette course." When asked why, the friend replied "So I could learn to say "Well, isn't that nice', instead of "Who gives a fu*k."