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Geez, chill out. I can't stand profanity.
by kizer 7y ago
Geez, chill out. I can't stand profanity.
- kragen 7y agoI don't mean this in a gatekeeping way, but if you've never been inspired to use profanity by an OO design, you probably aren't yet in the target audience.
- remirk 7y agoThat doesn't make sense.
- hinkley 7y agoStart here perhaps: https://www.wired.com/2011/02/cussing-in-commits-which-programming-language-inspires-the-most-swearing/ https://www.wired.com/2011/02/cussing-in-commits-which-progr...
- kragen 7y agoDo you ever use profanity? When do you use it, about which topics?
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- hinkley 7y agoYou’ve given other people control over your emotional states. Not even with elaborate statements. Just with individual words. What sort of compromising positions do you suppose that’s put you into, or will in the future?
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- inopinatus 7y agoPot, kettle, black. Blasphemy is a subclass of profanity.
- kragen 7y ago“Geez” is a minced oath designed specifically to avoid blasphemy—avoiding it by a millimeter, to be sure. Even some devout Christians say things like “gosh”, “darn”, and “geez”.
- hinkley 7y agoYeah it’s gaming the system. Like children saying I was Born on a Pirate Ship while holding their tongue. Or Miss Mary had a Steamboat. You know exactly what you’re doing and you ain’t foolin anyone.
- kragen 7y agoProfane and sacred language is a curious thing.
- inopinatus 7y ago"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out" I once knew a baptist preacher who was a serious student of theology and moral philosophy. He liked to discuss the distinction between theology and law, particularly when framing behaviour as the imperative expression of faith, and not faith as the expression itself. Needless to say, the parishioners loathed him and he was hounded out for exposing their constant hypocrisy. Also possibly for declaiming in classical Greek on a Sunday morning; he was truly a latter-day Socrates. My wife and I recently re-watched that unfortunately truncated classic, HBO/BBC/Rai's Rome, and were once again thoroughly entertained by the multitude of colourful epithets. Sadly, exclaiming "by Juno's cunt!" during a contentious meeting of the audit sub-committee or weekly retro would require more explanation than I'd care to give in context. And yet, a devout Christian should have no problem with this, at least on a theological level, since no scripture is violated.
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