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Personally, I'd prefer "fucking up" to go away, along with "rape" as a colorful equivalent of ruining/causing damage to someone or something. It associates sex
by dictum 7y ago
Personally, I'd prefer "fucking up" to go away, along with "rape" as a colorful equivalent of ruining/causing damage to someone or something.
It associates sex with violence and destruction.
A similar thing used to happen with "gay", which kids would use as an adjective for frustrating or annoying situations.
My preferences notwithstanding, it's still better to be clearer about what's happening. "Fucking up that variable" says very little about the cause of the problem, and its possible solution.
- wswkb 7y agoWhen I think of something being "fucked up", the last thing I think about is sex. Those words have grown a meaning of their own, away from the one they had.
- A2017U1 7y agoPersonally I'd prefer to work in a company where basic elements of the English language aren't policed with authoritarian fervor and would seek out alternatives ASAFP.
- skinnymuch 7y agoWhat does fucking up have to do with sex? I’d imagine it’s used in a sexual context in a significant minority of the time. And that’s not what it’s associated with.