The Power of Swear Words.

This touches on the very issue i've thought about a lot, which I find interesting. We give power to those words to play off our emotions. I had a very extroverted math teacher my freshman and sophomore years in college, and she couldn't care less about any swear word besides plum (prob going to be filtered, starts w/ a c and addresses feminine genitalia), to which she basically flipped out and would give whoever said it an F in the class for whatever reason. However, that's not because the four letters are inherently deserving of a failing grade in the class, but because she gave them that power over herself.

Then I go on to think about how some cultures find certain words more obscene than others, such as bloody in england and america.

Exactly. The same situation occurs when someone hears a word they don't like. Its how most fights get started. When someone says "F'uck you!!" its like unlocking some inner primal instinct to fight. Language is in
teresting to me...