IF the OP is still around watching this thread:
Which one of these questions are you actually asking?
Are you asking why is it acceptable to use substitutions for certain words, if those words are not acceptable, when everybody pretty much knows what words you intended anyway?
I'm really confused what is is you're really asking, because the only real question in your post doesn't make sense:
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why do people use -"substitute-" words if its the meaning behind the word that is -"so bad-"
The reason the question doesn't make sense is that the answer to the actual question you are asking there is right in the question itself.
Substitute words have a different meaning from the word being substituted. That's exactly why people use them.
Because "stinking" does not mean the same thing as "f*****g," even though we all know what stinking is a substitute for.
It sounds to me like what you are really asking is:
"Why, if swearing is 'so bad,' do people use substitute words when everybody knows they really mean the swear, and not just change the way we speak so as not to be using either substitutes or swears?"
I have a feeling that's what you're really asking, and that because of the direction this thread has taken, that may be why you've give up responding to it.
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