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Just a question as a non native speaker. Is the "hell yes" in the title considered slightly offensive? On par with "Damn LLVM" or something?
by bartvk 6y ago
Just a question as a non native speaker. Is the "hell yes" in the title considered slightly offensive? On par with "Damn LLVM" or something?
- TylerE 6y agoOnly to anyone over 70. Anyone who would take offense at that is going to find something to be offended by in anything ediger than Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.
- elcritch 6y agoIt is used in the positive sense with an extra emphasis of excitement.
- brodie 6y agoYour elementary school teacher would give you dirty looks if you said it, but your teenaged and adult friends would give you high fives and "hell yeahs" right back.
- josephg 6y agoIt also depends on where you are. Here in Australia, hell / damn aren't considered bad words. I think americans have a perception that australians swear a lot. We do - but also, a lot of what my american coworkers considered swearing doesn't register as swearing in my head. Here in australia (at least how I was raised), "hell" is just a word.
- brodie 6y agoAmerica is culturally all over the map (and literally too I suppose?), maybe more so than Australia. While the child-in-school thing might be universal across each state, there are many places were the word hell isn’t profane. Hell, sometimes it would be weird and just plain confusing not to say the word!
- asicsp 6y ago>there's a bonus "heck yes!" no swears version [0] [0] https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1327291869471059968 https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1327291869471059968