If you read my email, you should realize that I am asking for
self-monitoring of use of diction. I said nothing about a censor or
gatekeeper. Your over-reaction suggests otherwise.

  Self-censorship is nothing that we do not do all the time. You do not
refer to females as bitches (I hope) unless you are out with a couple of
buddies remembering your latest divorce or separtion, or some such  event.

  Did our hero Twain ever use in print low-class diction except in the voice
of characters defined by such?  We all know that Twain loved, defended, and
used profanity, but I do not think he used it or other slang
inappropriately.

  Oh yeah, I believe the word is "arbiter" unless you are intentionally
crossing it with the good old German "arbeit"  as in "mach frei."  If so,
that is creative, and just the stuff we want to see on this forum.

  Cheers.  Doug