Exactly. But good ol’ swearing is the way to go for some characters and can be extremely relatable
Cute stuff.
Of course it is. I also deal with a lot of football fans. The Packers get this a lot.
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Lore-appropriate? No thanks. It’s clunky to read. Sex and scatological obscenities, on the other hand, are pretty much universal (though there are different degrees of severity across cultures). I’ll take that.
Well, that can be lore-appropriate if it fits with the character/setting 
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I once read a first chapter on Wattpad where the MC was swearing every sentence they spoke. Even though it wasn’t a lore appropriate one, it was way too much swearing to be natural and was actually quite distracting 
When you think about people cursing in real life, they don’t actually curse all that much. At least, the average person doesn’t. When they do, even in real life, it seems quite on purpose and overdone.
So, they should do it sparingly in fiction.
Sometimes I catch myself making characters swear when they don’t have anything else to say
But what if they are using f-word equivalents? What do you think about that? It’s not lore appropriate. It’s a new made-up word. So, the bipedal felines of Elgana have been isolated for half a century and retained their ancient swear words from their native language.
One is “feigat” which is the f-word equivalent. It’s not like they don’t know the f-word, but this is their f-word, so they naturally use this instead of the actual one. (I also made this one up because I don’t like using the f-word in my stories, but characters gotta swear sometimes )
What do you think about finding these sort of replacements in a story? Sparingly, of course. From context, you’ll learn it’s a swear word that is the replacement of the f-word.
As I mentioned earlier, when they used Frak instead of Fuck in Battlestar Galactica I thought it worked very well, but as always it depends on how it’s used 
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