>>And another way of looking at it: if I say Fuck on the UT, it offends some/many, Michel bans me.
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>The puritan filter was removed many years ago. I wasn't offended (by its existence), it gave me an opportunity to develop a few language devices that I otherwise wouldn't. I wouldn't say "pissed off", I'd say "deurinated" (english is so full of it, I mean latin, that I was surprised when so many people didn't understand it), I didn't say "fuck", I'd say "know" (even worse, on a forum where a puritan filter is installed, people don't take a biblical meaning of a verb first, sheesh). Don't remember what I did with shit. Probably wrote it as shi*.

It's amazing to me that people who call themselves thoughtful deem it a privilege to use, or hear words that I heard ad nauseum as private in the US military.
Anyone who has spent more than a few hours in a military barracks (or a prison) has heard the full panoply of guttural expletives.
It's the language of the gutter.
How in the world has that become something to be emulated or admired?