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Give him a break .. English is not his first language
by ulvund 16y ago
Give him a break .. English is not his first language
- _pius 16y agoHonestly though, the "rape" thing was pretty offputting to me. Completely gratuitous and not at all clever.
- Confusion 16y agoHe may just be translating a common expression from his native language into English and doesn't realize how forceful it sounds. 'You've completely raped that function' is the literal translation of something I would say to someone that rewrote a function in a bad way. It would be considered to be less offensive than something that would translate as "you fucked it up". It's closer to 'you've completely wrecked that function'.
- Erwin 16y agoAssuming the .dk domain means he's Danish, I can tell you that there's no common Danish expression that would translate to "rape". We're not Vikings anymore. More likely that choice of word comes from online first-person shooter games lingo like "Let's rape the opposing team's base".