frickin for friggin (the -en is from sloth-typing of the Norman or Table variety, I'd guess) As to why one euphemism for self-pollution (YAN: the Puritan slant) is preferable to another?

Obv explanation: a culture as careless with words as this one - lacks the imagination of the storied Arab.. who can "swear 30 minutes without repeating self", and without ka-ka toilet SNL-variety poo-poo-head stuff either (I'm told; not an Arabic-speaker).

In brief - our expletives are as execrably banal as our cutesy advertainment creations are either insufferably cloying or just Dumb - like the AMC Matador:

an insult to the variegated infinitely nuanced English from which Murican has truly culled, compacted and _descended. Sloth and single-minded greed (substituting for any internal purpose in life) tends to devalue everything else as the Object of Reverence _-$$- becomes All.

The average daily speaking vocab of the Murican teenager is said to be <200 words - including the Bowdlerizations and riffs from transistorized guitars, imagined to be words. Some don't ever add much else for the next 10 years, except: "which cubicle, sir?" Recognition vocabularly may be a bit higher, of course: we are masters at Faking It. It's our raison d'\ufffdtre | Our George Babbitt-ness.


HTH

Ashton


Edit: Mr. Bowdler deserves a B, for his service as Legendary Example.
(marlowe OTOH - knows his place in the hierarchy)