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In my culture we use what you'd call profanity as punctuation marks. I feel it is imperialist for people from one culture to want people from other cultures to

• grzm 9y ago
  I understand where you're coming from. It's important to take the cultures and expectations of each participant if one's goal is to communicate effectively. And that goes both ways. Both the speaker and the listener need to take this into account. If one's dogmatic, believing that requiring any change on their own part to accommodate the listener, that gets in the way of the goal of communicating effectively, just as expecting a speaker to conform to one's own standards as a listener. It really needs to be looked at from each person's perspective.
  • Karunamon 9y ago
    And part of that is understanding when those perspectives are valuable and when they are irrelevant noise. I'd wager (but have no way of proving) that the quality of the Linux kernel has not been negatively impacted by a lack of people who get upset over word choice. Culture ownership is a thing, and Linus and team were there first. Oncomers need to adapt, or go elsewhere. They certainly don't need to provide this constant distraction.
    • tertius 9y ago
      > quality of the Linux kernel has not been negatively impacted I don't think that would be a good argument to make from either perspective. If people who choose to leave the community don't contribute you can't really measure lost contribution. That not being the crux of the issue, we should focus on the following. Just because a product is successful does not mean that the abuse that happens during development of that product is good or okay. And I think that's really the gist of what people are saying.