Mike,

>Then why live if you're just going to deprive yourself of fun?

We need to have a long talk if we can ever meet at the same conference :-)

>And I think thats wrong. A TRUE knowledge of the language would mean you respect someone for qualifying the depth of their feelings with an explitive, and not judging one of their words as simply profane and possibly dismissing the entire statement.

I can judge a word as profane without dismissing the entire statement. However, I fail to see how a "TRUE knowledge of the language" means respecting someone's use of profanity. That has nothing to do with knowledge of the language.