The problem with repression is just that. For example the word "bitch" is quite harmless in the Uk so I was very surprised to find it rendered as five asterisks when I posted it on a US hosted board. Likewise the US probably has harmless words that are offensive to UK ears, or maybe Mozambican ears or somewhere else's, if you try to avoid offending anyone it becomes impossible to effectively use language so I would much prefer to see those who are offended practicing tolerance rather than trying to close people down. On the point mentioned by Walter Montego and previously by Linda J that use of taboo words demonstrates a limited vocabulary; this is as unsupportable an arguement as one could wish for, every taboo word used is one more word in the vocabulary of the user than in that of the non-user.