Did you know that Ofcom has published a classification of rude/offensive English language (and a few non-English) words?

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/tv-radio-and-on-demand-research/tv-research/offensive-language-quick-reference-guide.pdf?v=326908

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Personally, I tend to avoid "rude" words myself; I do not tend to swear.

I don't have much tolerance for people swearing in messages mentioning me, and I tend to mute quite quickly for that.

This reminds me of a piece of academic research, on the undesirability of access to online pornography by children.

It seems that their research method consisted of asking children if they were familiar with / had accessed certain porn sites.

It included links to a lot of porn sites, many of which were new to me and, presumably, to many of the children involved in the research...