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A swear word used appropriately can help emphasis a point but to use it almost every other word shows a lack of intelligence..Example I went to a Roy "Chubby" Brown show once & he said **** every other word, now that was funny for about oh 5 minutes..but 45 minutes late I was bored out of my skull & so decided to **** off to the nearest bar!
ps I was on the ranges once with the Army & one of the blokes had a stoppage, when asked by the NCO what he was doing his reply was: "Sir the ****ing ****er is ****ing ****ed.." I & several others p1ssed ourselves with laughter..
That quote has also been attributed to John Emburey of Middlesex and England cricket fame, who upon being asked about the state of his just broken finger responded with the immortal 4 word sentence
'Facking facker's facking facked!'
I hope in your story the bloke was severely beasted for misaddressing the NCO. NCO's are called by rank. Sir is reserved for officers and WO1/WO2's, iirc.
The weird thing is, the words we use as swear words now, haven't always been that offensive.
Back in the mid-to-late Medieval period those words were in everyday usage as evidenced by the common street name of 'gropec*nt lane' meaning the place where the whores worked. They were crude yes, & not used in polite society (i.e the Gentry & above) but they weren't really shocking either.
If you wanted to REALLY offend back then you would use religious terms.
Terms like 'God's blood' 'Christ's bones' etc. This would make people stop, turn white & cross themselves in the st.
We still have the vestiges of this today - every time you shout "Jesus Christ!" you are harking back to a medieval swearing tradition 😆