[alexander_busek]

Well, yes and no. There’s a reason for the otherwise strange tendency to call vulgar words like the f-word, ‘profanities,’ being that “forbidden” words were often sacred words. The usage was just over-extended from words like “damned” to the F bomb.

Yes, quite! But it would be hopeless, nowadays, to expect the public to differentiate between "profanities" and "obscenities."

As for the remainder of your posting: Thank you for the interesting observations!

Regards,

[dangus]

I’m glad you were interested. I wonder how weird I am to be fascinated by stuff like this, but it’s an intersection of my interests in linguistics, French, Catholicism and deep history.