In France, for instance, even the most profane words of the language, like foutre (“fuck”) and putain (“whore”) are so common that if no one told you they were bad words, or gros mots (“fat words”) as they’re called in French, you could be excused for not figuring it out yourself. There’s no concerted censorship of specific words in the media in France as there is in the United States, which is part of the reason these words are everywhere.
