I don't think you are intellectually inadequate, Akenaton. Therefore I think you are being provocatively disingenuous. As I'm sure you're aware, words change their meanings over time. Calling someone a 'fucking cunt' is not (usually) a sexual reference, but simply an insult, devoid of semantic content. Calling someone a 'bastard' is not (usually) a reference to a person's immediate lineage, but is simply a word to stress that that person is not particularly nice. And to get back on topic, I wouldn't dream of using those words in a folk club, but have no problem using them in an ad hoc discussion on sociolinguistics. That being said, I'm rather bored with this now, so I'm out.