or greenman's posts.

The words used are the more elegant equivalents of your or greenman's vulgar words that you both favor using.

Both or either the words used or the contents of the words can be offensive.

The sort of gutter language for which you and greeman have a penchant is offensive to well-bred men and women simply in and of itself.

More refined language, such as the word "enemy to which shadow took such exception, is inoffensive in and of itself. The meaning of the word, though, can be just as offensive if not more so as a more vulgar word meaning the same thing.