Swearing is also cultural/personal, and correlates with familiarity. People will swear more among friends than with strangers. "[S]wearing is and will be taken

Swearing is also cultural/personal, and correlates with familiarity. People will swear more among friends than with strangers. "[S]wearing is and will be taken as a sign of disrespect or superiority" implies people respect their friends less than (and find them inferior to) strangers, which is absurd. One runs a high risk swearing in the presence of a superior with an unknown stance on swearing. This causes less exploratory swearing. Do not mistake caution with respect. A superior poses higher risk than a peer or junior. Someone can negatively react to swearing in a couple ways: 1) Deal with it directly, by talking. 2) Deal with it indirectly, by leveraging resources to harm the offending party. A peer/junior has less destructive potential when taking option #2. As a consequence of this, people swear less around superiors than peers/juniors.