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The endless march of American Corporate Culture. I've watched every single one of my submissions to Stackoverflow that I contributed in my own free time slowly

The endless march of American Corporate Culture. I've watched every single one of my submissions to Stackoverflow that I contributed in my own free time slowly cleaned and all my character purged from it until it more or less sounds like an American infomercial. And when I complain about this American cultural belligerence all I get is a bunch of blithe, hollow muppets who have been drained of passion and love telling me that I'm unprofessional and not swearing is empirically better because. Fuck that shit. I have to pragmatically accept it as a fact of life but I _really_ despise it.

hnhg 10y ago
Controlling swearing is also part of British culture so it's unfair to lay the blame on Americans.
- Quarrelsome 10y ago
  in the 70's perhaps. Not so much anymore and definitely much less so in the workplace. The: > thou shalt not swear on the internet programming community is really coloured by corporate and most corporate is American. The big argument I get is about corporate firewalls preventing access to any StackOverflow page with a cuss in it.
- simonswords82 10y ago
  No not at all. I'm sorry but British TV and society in general are infinitely more open to swear words than the same in America.
- jaclaz 10y ago
  There is a line somewhere between being "colourful" (and using some "bad words" when they are really needed) which may be "unpolite" or "inappropriate" according to the British and being NOT "politically correct" according to the Americans. The first can easily be "fixed" for the more sensitive audience by using synonyms or some asterisk/hyphen substitution, or more generally toning it down a bit, and is - if I am allowed to use the two words together - substantially formal only. The second is instead IMHO a bigger issue, because it implies a form of (self or coming from the society) imposed censorship on the "concepts". The Americans that have in theory the most permissive (thanks to first amendment) Laws on the right of expressing one's opinion have seemingly in practice a lot more "forbidden" topics (in the sense of topics on which your opinion "must" conform to the society accepted take on the matter). At least this is my impression.

hnhg 10y ago

Controlling swearing is also part of British culture so it's unfair to lay the blame on Americans.

Quarrelsome 10y ago
in the 70's perhaps. Not so much anymore and definitely much less so in the workplace. The: > thou shalt not swear on the internet programming community is really coloured by corporate and most corporate is American. The big argument I get is about corporate firewalls preventing access to any StackOverflow page with a cuss in it.
simonswords82 10y ago
No not at all. I'm sorry but British TV and society in general are infinitely more open to swear words than the same in America.
jaclaz 10y ago
There is a line somewhere between being "colourful" (and using some "bad words" when they are really needed) which may be "unpolite" or "inappropriate" according to the British and being NOT "politically correct" according to the Americans. The first can easily be "fixed" for the more sensitive audience by using synonyms or some asterisk/hyphen substitution, or more generally toning it down a bit, and is - if I am allowed to use the two words together - substantially formal only. The second is instead IMHO a bigger issue, because it implies a form of (self or coming from the society) imposed censorship on the "concepts". The Americans that have in theory the most permissive (thanks to first amendment) Laws on the right of expressing one's opinion have seemingly in practice a lot more "forbidden" topics (in the sense of topics on which your opinion "must" conform to the society accepted take on the matter). At least this is my impression.