This is surely true. On the other hand, there are other ways to convey how strong your opinion is, and if I feel once-per-year-strongly that Policy X is scary, maybe I should be conveying that by some more informative and costly means than just dropping in the word “fuck”. I tend to think that swearing works better as a mild intensifier, for relatively frequent use, than as a once-per-year thing.
This is surely true. On the other hand, there are other ways to convey how strong your opinion is, and if I feel once-per-year-strongly that Policy X is scary, maybe I should be conveying that by some more informative and costly means than just dropping in the word “fuck”. I tend to think that swearing works better as a mild intensifier, for relatively frequent use, than as a once-per-year thing.