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

Orlando? :-) Seriously, I'm not on earth to hold back and decide which pleasures to abstain from.

>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.

I know, thats the point you're missing. The word "Fuck" does not have to be profane! If you truely understood the language, and the word was used in correctly in cotext, it is simply another word, more forceful yes, but not profane. Thats why saying that someone is a sub-par thinker for using it is probably the most ignorant thing I've heard in a long time.