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Yeah, any viable list of swear words has to include "damn" (and derivatives), "hell", and "ass" (and derivatives). I'd even go so far as to say that "crap" and
by ZachPruckowski 16y ago
Yeah, any viable list of swear words has to include "damn" (and derivatives), "hell", and "ass" (and derivatives). I'd even go so far as to say that "crap" and "retard" (and derivatives) are sufficiently unprofessional that they belong on the list.
- reinhardt 16y agoAdd "wtf" to this list and you match more than 50% of all commit messages ;-)
- cema 16y agoOh no, wtf is professional terminology, cannot remove.
- JonnieCache 16y agoAlso was fuck searched as a word on its own? Because if you include compound words with fuck you are going to catch a long tail of interesting profanity, especially amongst programmers. You'd want to whitelist against the Scunthorpe Problem though.
- rayval 16y agoAnd if one goes that far, one would have to include variant spellings, because in the heat of the moment of cursing an opaque or broken piece of code, a programmer is likely to froth at the keyboard.
- rayval 16y agoAnd if one goes that far, one would have to include variant spellings, because in the heat of the moment of cursing an opaque or broken piece of code, a programmer is likely to froth at the keyboard.
- nailer 16y agoSwearing and cursing aren't the same things. Damn is a curse, but not actually considered a swear word in most parts of the world.