Whoa, I have to agree with everyone here.
As a teen in this, wonderful (sarcastic cough) world of being a teen, my friends cuss... Sometimes, a lot...
I actually find cussing can be necessary in a story, to give the right feeling of a character, but overused it just loses it's bite.
Like I have a character, we'll call her A, and she use to cuss like... Hm, maybe every other dialogue, if she was angry at someone. If she was drunk, her tongue would get loose, same if she was tired.
But my other character C, she's really strict on her language, and you know when she's angry, because she generally has a tight censor, but without her giving someone an even slight curse when she's angry, it doesn't convey her anger as much (sure she yells at people without cusses, but when she's, red hot angry, pft, her censor goes down).
I think it can take away from the text actually. There are just situations were an F-bomb is totally and utterly appropriate, and others were a lesser curse would do it's purpose. I think it honestly depends on the character and the setting.
If A were to be sitting around talking about this and that, she might throw a curse if she wanted to be snarky, or give a point.
C would only do that if it truly upsetted her, and I think overtime if you read a series of books when the narrator(s) only curse when they are truly upset, then you know, "Uh oh, someone tipped the iceberg..."
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